RE: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's location tag?

Or, alter your page's structure so that it writes its output into a buffer, and echo/print it at the end of the page. That way you can do the redirect at any point it's needed within the page logic. Jason -- Jason Murray jasonm@melbourneit.com.au Web Developer, Melbourne IT "Work now, freak later!" > -----Original Message----- > From: webapprentice [mailto:webapprentice@onemain.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:25 PM > To: Rasmus Lerdorf > Cc: James; Jason Murray; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's > location tag? > > > Hi Mr. Lerdorf, > I look forward to you upcoming O'Reilly PHP book. =) > > Yes, a META tag refresh or Javascript control seems to be the > only way left. > Strange that URL redirection is so unusual to implement in > PHP compared to > ASP or Coldfusion (unless they do something klunky under the hood). > > Anyway, I also noticed that when the manual says you cannot > output ANYTHING, > I found out that if I close out all my spaces in the PHP page > by tightening > the php container tags, I will not output anything first. I > forgot that > even whitespace would be considered a web page and would generate http > headers (since the PHP processor probably translates whitespace as > echo/print statements). > > Thanks. > > --Stephen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@lerdorf.ca> > To: "webapprentice" <webapprentice@onemain.com> > Cc: "James" <james@aipmedia.com.au>; "Jason Murray" > <Jason.Murray@melbourneit.com.au>; <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:01 AM > Subject: Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia > ColdFusion's location > tag? > > > > So use a Javascript meta-refresh > > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, webapprentice wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Thanks for the reply. I saw this as well in the mailing > list archives, > but > > > everyone is saying you cannot output ANYTHING before > calling header. > > > > > > Unfortunately, I'm calling this at the end of a process, > so it won't > work. > > > It tells me I've already sent out header information. > > > > > > I've basically created a single PHP page with a form. > When the form is > > > submitted, it submits to itself. It checks if the form > is submitted, > and > > > then goes to mail the contents to someone. After > mailing, I want to go > to a > > > Thank You page. I want to get away from this PHP page, > because I don't > want > > > a person refreshing the page and causing the PHP page to > submit again. > > > > > > Thus, is there something else I can do? Or am I just not > seeing this? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "James" <james@aipmedia.com.au> > > > To: "webapprentice" <webapprentice@onemain.com> > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:20 PM > > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Any PHP equivalent of Macromedia ColdFusion's > location > > > tag? > > > > > > > > > > header("Location: http://www.google.com"); > > > > replace that url with the page you want it to go to > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > >