Help with header(location)

PHP
1

Hi Guys,

After many hours research I still can’t get my head around redirecting with header(location) and so am hoping someone out there would be kind enough to help me out?

Basically i am posting form results to a url and waiting for a response. If the response is yes then i would like to redirect the user to a url that was sent back with the response, otherwise the results are posted to a 2nd url and if the response from that is yes i would like to redirect the user to a url that was sent back with that response etc… etc…


<body>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
	
$email = $_POST['email'];
$title = $_POST['title'];
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$id = $_SESSION['id'];
$date = date("Y-m-d");
$time = date("H:i:s");
	
//DO CURL STUFF

	if ($response == "true"){
                $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($leadResult);
                $url = $xml->Redirect;
		header("Location: $url"); // if i get a positive response i want to redirect
	}	
	else {	

//DO MORE CURL STUFF

	if ($response == "true") {
                $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($leadResult);
                $url = $xml->Redirect;
		header("Location: $url"); // if i get a positive response i want to redirect
	}
	else {
		($response == "false");
	}
	}
// WRITE RESULTS TO DATABASE
}
?>
</body>

I realise that this won’t work, i’m just not sure why it won’t work and, more importantly, how to make it work.

Thanks in advance.

2

Try putting the php code at the top of the script (before any output has been generated)

3

Thanks for the reply. So you mean:


<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
	
$email = $_POST['email'];
$title = $_POST['title'];
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$id = $_SESSION['id'];
$date = date("Y-m-d");
$time = date("H:i:s");
	
//DO CURL STUFF

	if ($response == "true"){
                $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($leadResult);
                $url = $xml->Redirect;
		header("Location: $url"); // if i get a positive response i want to redirect
	}	
	else {	

//DO MORE CURL STUFF

	if ($response == "true") {
                $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($leadResult);
                $url = $xml->Redirect;
		header("Location: $url"); // if i get a positive response i want to redirect
	}
	else {
		($response == "false");
	}
	}
// WRITE RESULTS TO DATABASE
}
?>
<html>
<body>
</body>
</html>

will my results still be written to the database if i do this?

4

Try it :slight_smile:

Maybe you’d have to save the results to the database before doing the redirect.

5

trial and error is my life! but thanks - i tried and it works :slight_smile: