RE: [PHP] Re: HTTP header question.

I'm fully aware of that. The issue is not the refreshing (that works fine)... Here's a little more detail: if(!$login) { if($failure) // complain // show the form } else { if(user_is_good) // take them to the next page else // complain } The //complain in the else section is this: Unset($login); // so it won't try to authenticate again $failure = true; // so the form knows to complain header("Location: login.php"); Okay. So, just to clear things up, I'm not sending anything before this. This happens IMMEDIATELY after the user clicks on Submit... What I'm looking for is a way to do this such that the user does not see anything more than http://host.name.here/rams/login.php in their address bar when it failed... doing it the way I show above does not work, and the alternative ( header("Location: login.php?failure=true") ) does not satisfy my requirement. So... anybody else? Ben -----Original Message----- From: Jacques [mailto:no_mail@nomail.php.net] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 5:58 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: HTTP header question. "Ben Bleything" <bleythib@ucs.orst.edu> wrote in message news:000001c11891$447271c0$0201a8c0@allegro... > Hey all, > > I want to craft a header such that it seems to the page that data has > been POST'ed to it... Here's the situation: I'm writing a login page to > my application, and if they log in incorrectly, I want the page to > redisplay, but I want it to throw out an error message. I'm currently > doing it by > > header("Location: login.php?failure=true"); > > but I'd like to make it transparent. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ben You cannot send ANY text or html tag (even a space ) before usin header function. If you have to get something displayed. I suggest to use then : echo "<HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh\" CONTENT=\"4; URL=login.php?failure=true\"></HEAD>"; Regards, Jacques -- 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