note 40752 added to function.dirname

From: Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:39:20 +0000
Subject: note 40752 added to function.dirname
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Since dirname() does not return "" when you are in the / directory it is not appropriate for relative redirects as stated in the documentation for header(). I wrote a function below that should work. <?php function relative_redirect($uri) { $directoryname = dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); if($directoryname == "." || $directoryname == "\\" || $directoryname == "/") $directoryname = ""; header("Location: http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$directoryname."/".$uri); } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dirname.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+40752 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+40752&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+40752&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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