PHP redirect

[tangledman]

Evening all...

I am trying to set a session variable and redirect.

If I link to language.php without the get variable in the URL the redirect works...otherwise I get a 404 and I don't know why

$_SESSION['language_code'] = $_GET['language_code'];

header( 'Location: http://www.spanishpropertymagazine.com/index.php' ) ; 

spanishpropertymagazine.com/language.php?language_code=ES does't seem to work

Halp me pleaz...

[spiderling]

Have you started your session?

session_start();
$_SESSION['language_code'] = $_GET['language_code'];

header( 'Location: http://www.spanishpropertymagazine.com/index.php' );
exit; 

[gregor171]

?language_code=ES

should work!

$language = isset($_GET['language_code']) ? $_GET['language_code'] : $my_default_language); 

isset is checker!

but you can use a mapper for the case if somebody trys:
?language_code=XXX

[Raju Gautam]

Are you sure the file language.php exists in your root? If yes then off course it should work. Maybe you are supposing to redirect to index.php:

header('http://www.spanishpropertymagazine.com/index.php?language_code=ES');
exit(); 

[tangledman]

hadn't started the session in language.php but now I have and I still get the same problem

[AdscendJeremy]

It simply does nothing at all?
Try using an HTTP sniffer to see what header your page is sending to the browser.

[gregor171]

Looks like it doesn't work at all --> means that error is some up the file (before your language trick);

try first:

<?
echo "hello world";
?>

$_GET is some basic function

Look again your code looks like loooooop!

[gregor171]

and another common thing with header
spaces or html before <? will cause error header allready send!

[tangledman]

I am still scratching my head with this. Infact I have gone off my food and i need a bath.

linking to www.spanishpropertymagazine.com/language_set.php redirects to the default language (english) but linking to spanishpropertymagazine.com/language_set.php?language_code=es throws up the 404

help please...

[gregor171]

I actually went to see if the site exists. It does.
Now do this quickly, since you have a live error:
spanishpropertymagazine.com/language_set.php&language_code=ES

I see here '&' and not '?'

how the url should look
index.php?myfirstvar=1&myseconvar=2

so '?' after index.php mens -> here come my variables
& after first variable means -> this is my next variable

[spiderling]

The links for your flag icons all have '&' instead of '?' in the address.

For example:
language_set.php&language_code=ES

Once fixed it seems to work.

[tangledman]

Gregor thanks dude,

I thought it was going to be something complicated, but no just stupid.

I am sure that if people one day look back over my threads on sitepoint they will say "bit of a thicky".

Slovene isn't on of the languages I had planned for the site. If you want the language config file It could be there!!

Thanks man

[gregor171]

don't bother about the past ;-) slovenia is no bigger than china town ;-) ok joke twice as big.

best wishes for your site ;-)