header of php not working btw html?

Question

<body>
<p>We hope to see you again..</p>
<?php header('Location: http://something/com'); ?>

</body>

how come? I copy the syntax from w3school

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '13 at 11:39

header() must be called before any actual output is sent, either by normal HTML tags, blank lines in a file, or from PHP. It is a very common error to read code with include, or require, functions, or another file access function, and have spaces or empty lines that are output before header() is called. The same problem exists when using a single PHP/HTML file.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 11:42

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You can do something like this:

<?php 
$message = "We hope to see you again..";
header('Location: http://something/com?msg='.$message);
exit;
?>

And show your message in redirected page echo $_GET['msg'];

answered Oct 04 '13 at 11:42

Serhat Akay

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 11:56

No whitespace before and heder() function. Header is before any output.

you need to put your code stat of that page

Like

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/"); /* Redirect browser */

/* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
exit;
?>

header of php not working btw html?

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