Posted by Martin Mandl - m2m tech support on 02/19/07 12:51

On Feb 19, 1:40 pm, "2291980" <stephenhb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> can any body tell me the dff between
> function redirect($url)
> {
> echo "<script>";
> echo "window.location='".$url."'";
> echo "</script>";
>
> }
>
> and
>
> header("Location $url")
>
> syntex belong to php

Dear Stephen,

In the first solution PHP creates a JavaScript and sends it via a
'normal' HTML page to the browser. If the browser has JavaScript
enabled it loads the new URL. If it is disabled, nothing happens.

In the second solution PHP sends a redirect statement with the URL to
the browser. The browser loads the new URL.

Cheers
Martin

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