PHP header(Location: …): Force URL change in address bar

Question

I\'m currently working on a mobile site with authentication using PHP sessions with a database. I have a login page with a form that goes to server_login.php

Answer 1

Are you sure the page you are redirecting too doesn't have a redirection within that if no session data is found? That could be your problem

Also yes always add whitespace like @Peter O suggested.

Answer 2

Just change home to your liking

$home_url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . '/home';

header('Location: ' . $home_url);

Answer 3

Well, if the server sends a correct redirection header, the browser redirects and therefore "changes the url". It might be a browser issue, then. I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but you should not send a relative url in the location header ("HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute URI as argument to » Location: including the scheme, hostname and absolute path, but some clients accept relative URIs. ", http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php), and "location" must be capitalized, like:

header('Location: http://myhost.com/mypage.php');

Answer 4

As "cfphpflex" suggested you can add break; after setting the header. You can also echo something, such as echo 'test';.

Answer 5

// Register user's name and ID

if ((!isset($_SESSION['name'])) && (!isset($_SESSION['user_id'])))  {
    $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($login_result);
    $_SESSION['name'] = $row['name'];
    $_SESSION['user_id'] = $row['user_id'];
}

header("Location: http://localhost:8080/meet2eat/index.php");

change to

// Register user's name and ID

if ((!isset($_SESSION['name'])) && (!isset($_SESSION['user_id'])))  {
    $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($login_result);
    $_SESSION['name'] = $row['name'];
    $_SESSION['user_id'] = $row['user_id'];
header("Location: http://localhost:8080/meet2eat/index.php");
}

Answer 6

Try changing:

header("Location : blabla")
                ^
                |
           (whitespace)

To

header("Location: blabla")