note 109087 added to function.header

I already see the PHP documentation contains this but I wanted to leave a note to let people know how important it is. ALWAYS use the exit command after a PHP header redirect! <?php header ("Location: index.php"); // Make sure you exit your code exit; ?> Alot of examples on the web fail to follow the statement with the exit command. I was contracted to do a huge social networking site several years ago and left the exit statement out of the code. This led to huge leaks in security and also caused a PHP headers already sent message. It caused me a major headache and I didn't realize what was doing it at the time. Now I use it in all my jobs. That's the thing with PHP, no one really teaches it formally so you have to make mistakes with it to learn things like this. It's in the PHP documentation but it's something I completely missed. Maybe this will be a nice heads up for someone looking on using the header function. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 24.131.27.37 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/109087 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109087/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109087/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109087/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109087/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109087/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109087/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109087 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/109087 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php