Using godaddy how to use header("Location:URL")

Question

On my localhost this page redirection working properly but when I setup my project on Godaddy hosting site it doesn't redirect to page it actually displaying same page! My code is as below:

<?
session_start();
include_once('connection.php');

$news_id=$_GET["id"];
$m_id=$_GET["m_id"];
$category =$_GET["category"];

$res=mysqli_query($con,"delete from marathi where id=$news_id");
if($res<=0)
{
    $_SESSION["MSG"]="News not deleted, Try Again";
    header("Location: m_news.php?id=".$m_id."&name=".$category);    
}
else
{
    $_SESSION["MSG"]="News deleted";
    header("Location: m_news.php?id=".$m_id."&name=".$category);    
}
?>

When I use godaddy this line is not working ..

header("Location: m_news.php?id=".$m_id."&name=".$category);

Enable error reporting. I'll bet you see a "headers already sent" error. — deceze, Jul 19 '16 at 10:40
You mean other code is runnung? just add die('hello); after include and check this prints or not — Deepak Dholiyan, Jul 19 '16 at 10:46
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/117689/discussion-between-abhijit-kumbhar-and-deepak-dholiyan). — Abhijit Kumbhar, Jul 19 '16 at 10:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '16 at 10:55

Always add a die() call after issuing Location headers.

The HTTP response must be terminated without any body data for browsers to properly interpret the redirect headers, if you just run your header() and let the PHP script continue there is no guarantee that the body of the response will be empty and if it isn't the redirect will not work.

header("Location: m_news.php?id=".$m_id."&name=".$category);
die(); // Stop further execution and prevent any accidental output.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '16 at 11:17

0

This is good practice to add die(); after every redirect. This stops execution of next script.

 header("Location: m_news.php?id=".$m_id."&name=".$category);
 die();

answered Jul 19 '16 at 11:17

Deepak Dholiyan

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