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Feb 04.2004

I was wondering if there was an alternate way of automatically going to a different page without using an include.

For example…
if i have an if statement, and the statement returns true, i want to go to a different web page.

Let’s assume that it returns true.

I want to go to the other page, but i dont want it to be in the same page.

Like, i want the page name in the address bar to change and not stay on the same page like it does with includes.

Example…
[url]www.site.com/example.php[/url]

i want it to go to a different page automcatically and change to this..
[url]www.site.com/seperatePage.php[/url]

Can someone help?

Thanks.

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@SamFeb 04.2004 — the best way I have found to do this is:
[code=php]
if(false)
{
echo "<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=seperatePage.php">";
}
[/code]
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@CSmith1128authorFeb 04.2004 — Good Stuff... Exactly what i was looking for.. Thanks!
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@pierskFeb 04.2004 — why not use:[code=php]if(false)
{
header("Location: seperatepage.php");
}[/code]??
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@AdamGundryFeb 04.2004 — You would be better off send a HTTP Location header as piersk suggested, which is more widely understood and more accessible. From the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines:

7.5 Until user agents provide the ability to stop auto-redirect, do not use markup to redirect pages automatically. Instead, configure the server to perform redirects.[/quote]
Adam

P.S. According to the HTTP 1.1 specification, you should specify an absolute URL with the Location header (i.e. with http://) but most browsers accept relative URLs.
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@pierskFeb 04.2004 — Good call about the http:// bit. I'd forgotten about that.

Anywho, there is also the problem in that if you've sent stuff* to the browser before the redirect then you are a bit schtuck!

When this has happened to me before, I'm used the <meta> way of doing it.

[size=1]*technical term[/size]?
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