PHP Redirect Function

After form submission or a page redirect is triggered, it's commonplace to redirect the user to a different page or to the same page, formatted in a different way. Usually, you'd complete this by coding:

header('Location:  destination.php');
exit();

This is a completely acceptable way to code your pages, but I prefer to use a redirect function instead. Why? It's much more readable, and quite honestly, I'm tired of writing the header('Location: ...') code.

function redirect($url,$permanent = false)
{
	if($permanent)
	{
		header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
	}
	header('Location: '.$url);
	exit();
}

Comments

  1. Mark Sanborn

    Do you use a plugin to highlight and format your php code?

  2. Shawn

    I’m pretty sure he uses:
    http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/

  3. david

    Shawn’s correct — you can go to the URL above to download the javascript and CSS files. I’m not using a WordPress plugin though — it’s easy to install on your own.

  4. Mark Sanborn

    Cool, I like the features it has over my current solution that I am using.

    Thanks.

  5. Sat Pirott

    Ahm… As you’re already talking about the syntaxhighlighter… Why is the little “copy code”-snippet copying code AFTER it says “the code is in your clipboard now”!? Wouldn’t it make sense to copy it before the JS alert?
    Well, anyway – nice website Dave! I like it – and all the little code snippets are really nice. So simple, but helping a lot. Sometimes it’s harder to create them “the easy way”, so this really comes in handy. Thanks!

  6. brion

    Nice and thanx

  7. Mike Vysocka

    You can use highlight_string() in PHP to hightligt your code, or highlight_file()…
    http://php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php

  8. eskenfense

    when i use this–>

    it respondes like
    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:\wamp\www\New2\4.php:1) in C:\wamp\www\New2\4.php on line 3

    what shall i do

  9. txongoku


    // Nota : Rafael Trindade da Silva : Mantus Deus Etrusco do Inferno
    // Email : rafaeltds at gmail dot com
    function redirect($pURL) {
    if (strlen($pURL) > 0) {
    if (headers_sent()) {
    echo "document.location.href='".$pURL."';\n"; }
    else {
    header("Location: " . $pURL);
    }
    exit();
    }
    }

  10. shayan

    hey,thats ok

    how i moust do if i want to run one of may actions in classes

    for example=>
    http://localhost:8007/frontend_dev.php/rmsSetupReservation/create


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