asked on

PHP redirect othern than Header Location

Hi,

in my PHP scripts I need to send people to different pages depending on the results of my script, I've been using

header('Location: /yougohere.php');

but I was wondering if there was a better / cleaner solution to sending people to different pages?

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

themrrobert

membership

This solution is only available to members.

To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.

Start Free Trial

themrrobert

I would probably use a SQL database of user urls tied to user names, so psuedo code would be: (using PEAR::DB)

$sql = "SELECT `url` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '$username';";

...

header('Location: ' . $result['url']);

Open in new window

hernst42

Instead od redirecting you could use the FrontController-Pattern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_controller so there is no need for a redirect

re-searcher

In addition to previous answers/solutions you can use following ways (i will note previous posts,too):
+ using header (which you said in your question), and clear header before using it for clear errors or set error_responding to zero.
+ using javascript code which should echo and use die(); in next line.
+ using redirect html tag which should echo and use die(); in next line.
+ using Front Controller Pattern (as hernst42 said in post #36984127)
+ using apache mod_rewriting and in_line editing.

if you need additional information on each ways let me know.