Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 02/18/05 15:32

* Vaibhav Sibal <vaibhavsibal@gmail.com>:
> I have a scenario wherein the people logging into the system have
> different kinds of status as in a person can either be a admin, a
> user, or a supervisor etc. Now I have different web interfaces for all
> these kind of people. What I want to know is what function do i use to
> go to a URL directly in a case where status of the person is something
> like admin or user etc. For ex. if a person Robert is the admin and
> his name and password correctly matches from the database and the
> status of Robert as stored in the database is admin then as soon as he
> pressed the login button he should automatically be forwarded to a
> page, eg. admin.php, where he can access his stuff. Please tell me
> what function should I use ?

header("Location: http://server.tld/path/to/admin/script.php");

Make sure you don't have any output happening before you try and use
this, though.

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