PHP Redirect

**Arjen** · Jan 15 '07, 06:45 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

John schreef:

Hello,
>
I have a php contact script and I want it to redirect to my homepage
without using the standard header command.
>
<?php
header("locatio n:http://www.johndoe.com/index.html");
exit;
?>
>
Does anyone know a way to do this?

Use meta refresh
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL= http://www.url.ext/" />

Aldough it makes that nasty double clicking noise on some systems.

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**Lixas** · Jan 15 '07, 06:55 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

Hi John, I have php function that can be used for users browser
redirection:
<?
function redirect($locat ion, $type="header")
{
if ($type == "header")
{
header("Locatio n: ".$location );
exit;
}
elseif($type == "script")
{
echo "<script
type='text/javascript'>doc ument.location. href='".$locati on."'</script>\n";
die("redirectin g: please <a href=\"$locatio n\">click here</aif you
are not redirected in 5 sec.");
}
elseif($type == "meta")
{
die("
<html><head><ti tle>Redirecting ...</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh \" CONTENT=\"3; URL=$location\" >
</head>
<body>redirecti ng: please <a href=\"$locatio n\">click here</aif you
are not redirected in 5 sec</body>
</html>");
}
}

// usage
redirect("www.y ourserver.com/yourpage"); //this will use php header
type of redirection

redirect("www.y ourserver.com/yourpage", "script") //this will create
javascript with redirections instruction for user and link in case of
JS is turned off

redirect("www.y ourserver.com/yourpage", "meta") //this will redirect
your user to your page using meta tags and also creates link to
destination page in case of some kind of error
?>

I think that is all types of redirecting user to other page

**John** · Jan 15 '07, 09:55 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:38:57 +0100, Arjen <dont@mail.mewr ote:

>John schreef:

>Hello,
>>
>I have a php contact script and I want it to redirect to my homepage
>without using the standard header command.
>>
><?php
>header("locati on:http://www.johndoe.com/index.html");
>exit;
>?>
>>
>Does anyone know a way to do this?

>
>Use meta refresh
><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL= http://www.url.ext/" />
>
>Aldough it makes that nasty double clicking noise on some systems.

Thank you sir - that worked perfect.

**Michael Fesser** · Jan 15 '07, 11:25 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

..oO(John)

>I have a php contact script and I want it to redirect to my homepage
>without using the standard header command.
>
>
><?php
>header("locati on:http://www.johndoe.com/index.html");
>exit;
>?>

That's the correct way. What's wrong with it?

Micha

**Michael Fesser** · Jan 15 '07, 11:25 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

..oO(Arjen)

>Use meta refresh
><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL= http://www.url.ext/" />
>
>Aldough it makes that nasty double clicking noise on some systems.

And breaks the back button ...

Micha

**Arjen** · Jan 16 '07, 07:45 AM

Re: PHP Redirect

Michael Fesser schreef:

.oO(John)
>

>I have a php contact script and I want it to redirect to my homepage
>without using the standard header command.
>>
>>
><?php
>header("locati on:http://www.johndoe.com/index.html");
>exit;
>?>

>
That's the correct way. What's wrong with it?
>
Micha

I'm guessing headers allready sent error.

If op could show some code it would be clear :-)

--
Arjen
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**Petr Vileta** · Jan 16 '07, 09:05 AM

Re: PHP Redirect

"Arjen" <dont@mail.mepí se v diskusním príspevku
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Michael Fesser schreef:

>.oO(John)
>>

>>I have a php contact script and I want it to redirect to my homepage
>>without using the standard header command.
>>>
>>>
>><?php
>>header("locat ion:http://www.johndoe.com/index.html");
>>exit;
>>?>

>>
>That's the correct way. What's wrong with it?
>>
>Micha

>
I'm guessing headers allready sent error.
>
If op could show some code it would be clear :-)
>

Because header must be send BEFORE anything other. Sample code

<?php
if( some condition) {
header("Locatio n: www.google.com" ); }
else {
// read some from database }
// read or set session
?>
<html><head>
.....

--

Petr Vileta, Czech republic
(My server rejects all messages from Yahoo and Hotmail. Send me your mail
from another non-spammer site please.)

**Michael Fesser** · Jan 16 '07, 01:35 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

..oO(Arjen)

>Michael Fesser schreef:

>.oO(John)
>>

>><?php
>>header("locat ion:http://www.johndoe.com/index.html");
>>exit;
>>?>

>>
>That's the correct way. What's wrong with it?
>>

>I'm guessing headers allready sent error.

Then it would be time to fix the script instead of using ugly and
unreliable client-side redirects.

>If op could show some code it would be clear :-)

Yep.

Micha

**John** · Jan 16 '07, 03:55 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:33:18 +0100, Arjen <dont@mail.mewr ote:

>Michael Fesser schreef:

>.oO(John)
>>

>>I have a php contact script and I want it to redirect to my homepage
>>without using the standard header command.
>>>
>>>
>><?php
>>header("locat ion:http://www.johndoe.com/index.html");
>>exit;
>>?>

>>
>That's the correct way. What's wrong with it?
>>
>Micha

>
>I'm guessing headers allready sent error.
>
>If op could show some code it would be clear :-)

Here is the code:

<?php

// Define your email address - where to send messages - here
define("MAIL_TA RGET","johndoe@ nowhere.com");

// Here you can redefine error messages
define("errorNa me","Invalid name! It must be at least 2 characters
long");
define("errorEm ail","Invalid email address!");
define("errorMs g","Invalid message! It must be at least 10 characters
long");

function
createForm($nam e="",$email="", $message="",$er ror1="",$error2 ="",$error3="") {
?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"
method="post">
<table>
<tr><td>Name: </td><td class="error">< ?php echo $error1;
?></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><in put class="text" type="text"
name="name" value="<?php echo $name; ?>"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email :</td><td class="error">< ?php echo $error2;
?></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><in put class="text" type="text"
name="email" value="<?php echo $email; ?>"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Message :</td><td class="error">< ?php echo $error3;
?></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><te xtarea cols="40" rows="6"
name="message"> <?php echo $message; ?></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><br/><input class="text" type="submit"
name="submitBtn " value="Send"></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php
}

function isValidEmail($e mail){
$pattern =
"^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$";

if (eregi($pattern , $email)){
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}

function sendMail($name, $email,$message ){

$subject = "Message from website";
$from = "From: $name <$email>\r\nRep ly-To: $email\r\n";
$header = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"."Conte nt-type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$content = htmlspecialchar s($message);

$content = wordwrap($conte nt,70);
mail(MAIL_TARGE T,$subject,$con tent,$from.$hea der);

}
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">
<html>
<head>
<title>Contac t Form</title>
<link href="style/style.css" rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
<div id="caption">Co ntact us</div>
<div id="icon">&nbsp ;</div>
<?php if (!isset($_POST['submitBtn'])) {
createForm();
} else {
$name = isset($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : "";
$email = isset($_POST['email']) ? $_POST['email'] : "";
$message = isset($_POST['message']) ? $_POST['message'] : "";

$error = false;

if (strlen($name)< 2) {
$error = true;
$error1 = errorName;
}
if (!isValidEmail( $email)) {
$error = true;
$error2 = errorEmail;
}
if (strlen($messag e)<10) {
$error = true;
$error3 = errorMsg;
}

if ($error){
createForm($nam e,$email,$messa ge,$error1,$err or2,$error3);
}
else {
sendMail($name, $email,$message );
?>

<div id="result">
<table width="100%">
<tr><td>
Thanks for your message!
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>

<?php
}
}
?>
<div>
</body>

**John Dunlop** · Jan 16 '07, 04:55 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

Arjen:

Use meta refresh
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL= http://www.url.ext/" />

The meta refresh can be bewildering, all the more so if
the user isn't looking at the page when it "redirects" . It
can knock the user's mental model out of kilter.

And, as Michael pointed out, it can also break the Back
button, because as soon as you go Back to the page with the
meta refresh, it "redirects" you again. Hitting the Back
button twice with a delay of zero is tricky.

The meta refresh also doesn't offer different types of
"redirect" - for example, permanent, temporary - but only one
fake redirect, lodged in the markup of the page.

And some browsers don't even support the meta refresh,
still others allow you to turn it off, so you would have to
offer another means of getting to the new page, such as a link.

What do you gain from the meta refresh and would it not be
better to either simply link to the new page or set up a real
redirect?

--
Jock

**Carl Pearson** · Jan 16 '07, 05:45 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

John wrote:

Hello,
>
>
I have a php contact script and I want it to redirect to my homepage
without using the standard header command.
>
>
<?php
header("locatio n:http://www.johndoe.com/index.html");
exit;
?>
>
>
>
>
Does anyone know a way to do this?

You could do it on the client via javascript, but that would mean an
additional call to the server (assuming the redirection is going to
somewhere else on the same site):

function Redirect($Url = "/")
{
echo "<script
language='JavaS cript'>document .location.href= '".$Url."'</script>";
exit;
}

**Arjen** · Jan 16 '07, 08:05 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

John schreef:

<?php if (!isset($_POST['submitBtn'])) {
createForm();
} else {

<snip>

else {
sendMail($name, $email,$message );

Try something like this on top of ur page

if (!isset($_POST['submitBtn'])
{
// do ur mail check etc
sendMail($name, $email,$message );
header('Locatio n: www.example.com ');
exit;
}
else
{
//other stuff
}

<html>
etc

--
Arjen

Honden Page: uw hond en honden.

http://www.hondenpage.com

HondenPage: alles over uw hond of honden,fokkers en puppy's. Je vindt hier het hondenforum, honden foto's, fokkers, puppy's, de honden encyclopedie en nog veel meer !

**dan@tobias.name** · Jan 25 '07, 09:25 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

On Jan 16, 10:42 am, John <John_nos...@nn nnnnnnn.nowhere wrote:

}function isValidEmail($e mail){
$pattern =
"^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$";
>
if (eregi($pattern , $email)){
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}

OK, this isn't the main topic of this thread, but I have to remark
about the above function which was posted as an example of the code
John is using; it appears that this requires as one aspect of a "valid"
e-mail address that it have a top-level domain that is exactly 2 or 3
characters long, which would exclude addresses in .info, .name,
..museum, and some other TLDs.

--
Dan

**Rik** · Jan 25 '07, 09:25 PM

Re: PHP Redirect

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:15:43 +0100, <dan@tobias.nam ewrote:

On Jan 16, 10:42 am, John <John_nos...@nn nnnnnnn.nowhere wrote:

>}function isValidEmail($e mail){
> $pattern =
>"^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$";
>>
> if (eregi($pattern , $email)){
> return true;
> }
> else {
> return false;
> }

>
OK, this isn't the main topic of this thread, but I have to remark
about the above function which was posted as an example of the code
John is using; it appears that this requires as one aspect of a "valid"
e-mail address that it have a top-level domain that is exactly 2 or 3
characters long, which would exclude addresses in .info, .name,
.museum, and some other TLDs.

Yup, I've given up trying to regex valid emaildresses (try to find
Friedl's total email validation regex, it's a terrible beast). There are
more characters allowed then just [a-z0-9_.-]. I'm just checking if the
adress contains one and only one @, and wether I can locate the domain
from the server.

--
Rik Wasmus
* I'm testing several new newsreaders at the moment. Please excuse
possible errors and weird content. *

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