Re: Newbie redirect/variable question
| From: | bill | Date: | Thu, 10 May 2001 11:31:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Newbie redirect/variable question | ||
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On Thu, 10 May 2001, Steve Wade wrote:
> I'm trying to get a redirect working - never done one before.
>
> Here's the line from the referring page (index.php3):
>
> <a href="redirect.php?fred=www.fusion.org.au">test link</a>
>
> Here's redirect.php:
>
> <?php
> echo $fred;
I don't think you can output anything like this to the browser before you
issue a header statement. Try it without the echo $fred :)
>
> if ($fred != "") {
> # $statement = "UPDATE links SET hits=hits+1 WHERE href=\"$u\"";
> # mysql_query($statement);
> Header("Location: $fred");
> exit;
> } else {
> echo "Didn't work\n";
> # Header("Location: $HTTP_REFERRER");
> exit;
> }
> ?>
>
> it just skips straight to the else statement. (
>
> Can anyone see what I'm getting wrong?