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I'm using this script to write news to a text file. When the news has been sent I'm seeing this message: "News added!". I would like the script to open index.php instead of writing this message. I need to change echo"News added!"; but don't know what function to use. Here's the code:
PHP Code:fopen("news.txt", "a+");
if($action == add){
$fp = fopen("news.txt", "a+");
$data = "$title - $news \n";
fputs($fp, $data);
fclose($fp);
echo"News added!";
Two ways:
1) replace your echo statement with:
This is the nicest solution but it can be problematic. Absolutely NO output can have been already sent by the script (because this means that the headers will have already been sent). This also means that NO whitespace is allowed before your opening <?php tag (because stuff outside the php tags is treated as raw HTML output). People often get stumped on that.PHP Code:header("Location: index.php");
2) If you can't get the above to work for you - then you can send a html page with a meta refresh tag
PHP Code:echo '
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="1; url=index.php">
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
';
Thanks freakysid! You were right, the header("Location: index.php"); didn't work, I just got this message: Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by..... Your other suggestion, however, worked perfectly! Thanks again!
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