PHP - forward a page on best way!

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Hi! How do i forward a page on the best way? Should I use the header-funct. or should i use HTML (meta-tags) to refresh? I hope some experts could give me some advice at this point. Thanks!

Btw, the forwarding is made inside an if-statement if that could be to some problem?

Possible duplicate of [How to make a redirect in PHP?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/768431/how-to-make-a-redirect-in-php) — Cœur, Jul 10 '18 at 12:51

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 17 '09 at 17:37

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If you want to redirect the user to an URL, you can use the header function to send a Location HTTP header :

header('Location: http://www.example.com/new-url.php');
die;

(In theory, you should use an absolute URL that includes the domain name -- but most browsers accept a non-absolute URL)

You can use this wherever you want in your script, even inside a if-block, of course.

The only thing is, as you are setting an HTTP-header : you must not have sent any kind of output before (not even a white space at the end of an included file).

answered Dec 17 '09 at 17:37

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Okay, thanks! So I could do this to add variable to URL: header('Location: http://www.example.com/new-url.php?ref='. $ref .''); – phpmasterNOT Dec 17 '09 at 17:41
Also be careful when you pass variables, one bad example: header('Location: example.com/$_GET["url"].php') – Jay Zeng Dec 17 '09 at 17:42
Yes, you can add variables to the URL : you just have to build the URL you want to redirect to ;-) – Pascal MARTIN Dec 17 '09 at 18:41

markoj · Answer 2 · 2022-10-01T21:24:12.140

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You can use JavaScript.

echo "<script>location.replace(\"$url\");</script>";

Take a look at https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_redirect_webpage.asp .

edited Oct 01 '22 at 21:24

answered Feb 27 '20 at 19:09

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