Re[2]: [PHP] Best way to do this: www.domain.com?page=var

Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 10:54:21 AM, tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com wrote: > If you can't set a new 'default page' on your server, using a > header('Location: ...') will simulate the same thing. Not really. Sending a "Location:" header says, "this page is temporarily moved" and the browser has to send a 2nd request for the new location. Whether redirecting via PHP (header), javascript or meta-refresh, these all needlessly force the browser to ask for the page twice, and potentially cause bookmarking/spidering issues when used for the home page. Amazon does this and it's annoying; some browsers just will not "remember" the plain old "http://amazon.com/" that you typed in because only a redirect lives there. With a proper server config, the contents of start.php would be immediately sent to the browser. This is good. But if you can't set this on the server, this simple PHP script (index.php) does the same thing: <?php require 'start.php'; ?> Steve -- http://mrclay.org/