Location rederict

[brad62]

I'm going crazy. I did this so many times and now it's not working.

I have this line on a page:

header("Location: $url"); 

I tried to output the same thing on the page, without the redirect and it outputs what is set in $url.
But when I write that line, it doesn't redirect. Am I doing something wrong with the " ?

[ralph.m]

That looks OK to me. It might be something to do with the larger context. What does happen at the moment? Can you post more code?

[brad62]

But when I write

<?php echo $url; ?>

The url is showing correct on the screen.

This code is working:

$url = $row_rs_band['url'];
echo $url; 

This code is NOT working:

header("Location: $url"); 

The first thing is a code I placed to check if the output is correct.
Then when running the second one, I removed the first part, since there cannot be any output before a redirect.

[brad62]

I have no idea what I did now. I just wrote the code, uploaded the file and now it works.
Maybe an invisible space was inserted. Sometimes I've seen that when copying and pasting...

[Cups]

Two things to watch out for with header();

Do not output anything prior to calling it, not a space, new line, nothing.

call

exit(); 

on the line immediately below.

Turn on error_reporting when you spot this again.

OK, thats 3 things ...