PHP - forward a page on best way!

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Possible Duplicate: How to make a redirect in PHP?

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Hi! How do i forward a page on the best way? Should I use the header-funct. or should i use HTML (meta-tags) to refresh? I hope some experts could give me some advice at this point. Thanks!

Btw, the forwarding is made inside an if-statement if that could be to some problem?

Answer 1

If you want to redirect the user to an URL, you can use the header function to send a Location HTTP header :

header('Location: http://www.example.com/new-url.php');
die;

(In theory, you should use an absolute URL that includes the domain name -- but most browsers accept a non-absolute URL)

You can use this wherever you want in your script, even inside a if-block, of course.

The only thing is, as you are setting an HTTP-header : you must not have sent any kind of output before (not even a white space at the end of an included file).