Re: Redirection in PHP ? (newbie)

header("Location: page.phtml"); http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php Ethan Schroeder ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicolas Mermet" <himself@nicolas-mermet.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:57 PM Subject: [PHP] Redirection in PHP ? (newbie) > Hi, this might be a trivial question but I could not find any docs on that > on php.net. > > I am develloping the admin side of a dynamic web site (php/mysql). > The mechanic is nothing special: a form is submitted and sends the data to > the php page/script that actually does the work of feeding the db. I > noticed that hitting "back" on the browser make the feeding scripts run > again, and double the entries in the db. Of course, that is what the > scripts are supposed to do :-). > > To avoid spamming my db I would like to implement a simple redirection > function, that would redirect the user to the main admin page once the > feeding script has successfully executed and would reduce chances of > double entries. Is there a simple way to achieve that ? > > thanks, > Nicolas. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >