How can I have a link automatically redirect in PHP

Question

I have a php form for users to create an account. When the submit button is pressed, the page is redirected to a response page that saves the information to a database. I have a link on the response page that sends the user to a page which displays the account information.

echo "<a href ='AccountInformation.php'>Account Information</a>";

How can I instead make the response page automatically redirect to the display page?

user10089632 · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-17T12:41:55.843

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Easy, you make :

header("location:AccountInformation.php");

before any output (echo, print, print_r, plain HTML ... ) is sent to the web browser.

edited Jul 17 '17 at 12:41

answered Jul 17 '17 at 02:07

user10089632

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Thank you for the quick response – Devorah613 Jul 17 '17 at 02:10
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just in case it comes up, you need to use this line of code before any output to the page has started too – dstewart101 Jul 17 '17 at 07:51
@dstewart101 Really? I put the code on the bottom of the page and it worked. – Devorah613 Jul 18 '17 at 02:26
@user8272041 - yep, just like the edited answer from Lambda7 above says – dstewart101 Jul 18 '17 at 13:00

How can I have a link automatically redirect in PHP

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