redirects w/ js

[Magic-chef]

I have a site with PHP code that I need to have a js function to
redirect to another page or site. I am just trying to learn JS and need
a starting palce. Would this be difficult?

[David Dorward]

Re: redirects w/ js

Magic-chef wrote:
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> I have a site with PHP code that I need to have a js function to
> redirect to another page or site. I am just trying to learn JS and need
> a starting palce. Would this be difficult?[/color]

Difficult, no, just set a new value for the window.location object.

But its probably the wrong way to do things, redirection using JavaScript is
almost always suboptimal compared to redirection using http (with a header
you can set using PHP) or even HTML (with the ugly meta redirect thing).
About the only time when redirecting using JS is apropriate is as part of a
test for JavaScript (and then only when the code can't be made to
gracefully degrade[1] so alternatives have to be provided).


[1] Rare, very rare. At least when an alternative can be provided.

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