Re: PHP Redirect in the middle of code?

Right off the top of my head, you have three options that I can see: (1) Rewrite the code to avoid any output before the redirect. (2) Use output buffering (available only in PHP4). I haven't used this, but check out http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php (3) Use a META REFRESH tag. For example: <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="1;page.php"> where 1 is the time (in seconds) before you want the redirect, and 'page.php' is where you want the redirect to. Of course, this tag needs to be in the <HEAD> section, so it might not help you much. As far as I know, though, cold fusion's <cflocation> tag only works because CF does output buffering implicitly. So, I'd guess you need to do option (2). -steve At 10:37 AM -0400 9/10/01, Andrew Penniman wrote:

I am trying to figure out how to use PHP to redirect the user to a new location *after* processing and most likely outputting a bunch of code. Because this redirection would happen late in the game I can't use header("Location: ".$redirect_to); I come from a ColdFusion background and am used to CFAS' <cflocation> tag. Does PHP have an equivalent function? I am really hoping not to use JavaScript, I want this redirection to happen at the server and not the client.

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