Posted by Manish on 07/25/06 10:40

Will window.location.href work.

From:
<?php
header("location: somepage.php");
?>

To:
?>
<script language="javascript">
window.location.href = "somepage.php"
</script>
<?php


Javascript must be enabled in the browser settings.




bobmct wrote:
> Please help me clear the cobwebs out???
>
> I pretty much use session_start(); at the start of most/all of my PHP
> programs and use the $_SESSION array to store control variables. This
> technique seems to work quite well and is easily manages.
>
> However, now I've come up to a situation where it's biting me and I need
> some other ideas as to how to get around my situation.
>
> In my PHP program I am in a logic block that requires to next page to be
> delivered from a different server. If this were a link then I would use
> the "href=" tag and when the user clicked on it control would go as
> expected.
>
> However, in this case I need control to go seamlessly and automatically. So
> I thought I would use the header(location:) function and guess what? It
> doesn't work because I have sessions and apparently sessions does something
> that causes the headers to be disallowed.
>
> I've evaluated trying to eliminate the sessions but this technique really
> works so well and exactly was it is supposed to. So I am thinking that I
> cannot be the only one whose come up against this before. Therefore, what
> are OTHERS doing to accomplish this requirement (i.e.: using sessions and
> still being able to automatically/seamlessly transition to a different
> server without additional user input)?
>
> I am most anxious to read what others are doing.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob

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