How to redirect to another page using PHP

Question

I am building a website which includes a login page. I need to redirect the user to their profile page once they\'ve logged in successfully, but I don\'t know how to do that

Answer 1

You could use a function similar to:

function redirect($url) {
    ob_start();
    header('Location: '.$url);
    ob_end_flush();
    die();
}

Worth noting, you should always use either ob_flush() or ob_start() at the beginning of your header('location: ...'); functions, and you should always follow them with a die() or exit() function to prevent further code execution.

Here's a more detailed guide than any of the other answers have mentioned: http://www.exchangecore.com/blog/how-redirect-using-php/

This guide includes reasons for using die() / exit() functions in your redirects, as well as when to use ob_flush() vs ob_start(), and some potential errors that the others answers have left out at this point.

Answer 2

On click BUTTON action

   if(isset($_POST['save_btn']))
    {
        //write some of your code here, if necessary
        echo'<script> window.location="B.php"; </script> ';
     }

Answer 3

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<?php
echo '<div style="text-align:center;padding-top:200px;">Go New Page</div>'; 
		$gourl='http://stackoverflow.com';
		echo '<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" Content="2; URL='.$gourl.'">';    
		exit;

?>


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Answer 4

You can conditionally redirect to some page within a php file....

if (/*Condition to redirect*/){
  //You need to redirect
  header("Location: http://www.yourwebsite.com/user.php"); /* Redirect browser */
  exit();
 }
else{
  // do some
}

Answer 5

You could use ob_start(); before you send any output. This will tell to PHP to keep all the output in a buffer until the script execution ends, so you still can change the header.

Usually I don't use output buffering, for simple projects I keep all the logic on the first part of my script, then I output all HTML.

Answer 6

Just like you used echo to print a webpage. You could use also do the same with redirecting.

print("<script type=\"text/javascript\">location.href=\"urlHere\"</script>")