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Posted by ED on 05/18/06 18:27
"Martin Jay" <martin@spam-free.org.uk> wrote in message
news:gpN0+7GOpFbEFwEo@onenet.org.uk...
> In message <cPOag.172827$WI1.101092@pd7tw2no>, Ian Rutgers
> <irutgers@otima.ca> writes
>>...still didn't do a redirecti ... even put the thank you page in the same
>>folder as the other php file. In that case I get an error message:
>>"Warning: Cannot modify header information - header already sent by
>>(output
>>started at ... url of file) in file name on line 332"
>
> Header must go before everything else in the document, even before
> !DOCTYPE, <html>, and <head>. Sending a space or new line would be
> enough to prevent the redirect from working.
>
> And technically you should also add a reason for the redirect, such as
>
> header ('HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily');
> header ('Location: ../thankyou.php');
>
> But in reality the first line can be left out.
>
> Do you really need to do a redirect, though? HTML and PHP code can be
> mixed. Perhaps it would be easier to simply include the HTML after the
> PHP code in the same file.
> --
> Martin Jay
Also technically, the Location header should point to an absolute url, ie:
header('Location: http://www.mydomain.com/thankyou.php');
cheers,
ED
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