redirect for a login.php

[Hooch]

I have a login.php page that will say you have successfully logged in or it will say try again if something is wrong. I wish to change the successfull login from this..

// set a cookiesetcookie( "id", "$id", time()+3600, "/", "", 0 );echo "User Logged in.<br><br><a href=\"index.php\">Continue...</a>";}

To redirecting back to index.php automatically. Can I do this, If so how? Thank you..Hooch

[dcole.ath.cx]

here you go:

print "<script>location = 'index.php';</script>";

[Hooch]

Like a glove!! Thanks man!

[Chocolate570]

I suggest you also add this:print '<noscript><a href=\"index.php\">Click here to go back to index.php</a></noscript>';As some browsers don't support javascript.

[Hooch]

Hi Chocolate,would it look like this then? // set a cookiesetcookie( "id", "$id", time()+3600, "/", "", 0 );print "<script>location = 'index.php';</script>"; print '<noscript><a href=\"index.php\">Click here to go back to index.php</a></noscript>';}

[Chocolate570]

Yup, except I don't know why you have an extra bracket at the end. Is that just part of your main script? If so, that should work. You could remove those \'s behind the quotes, though.

[justsomeguy]

You can also just add a header to instruct the browser to redirect (not through javascript):

header("Location: index.php");

This will only work if you haven't started the page output yet, but if you are setting a cookie then headers are still being sent, so it should work here.

[Hooch]

Thanks guys. I took Choclates advice and all is working.

[dcole.ath.cx]

Good php has ' ' and " " and \' \' and \" \"... one time I like need 4 different quotes because I had a dynamic button input code thing, with php writing html with js links writing html that had php variables in it...

[LittleNicky]

So what would you put if you wanted to redirect to the page you were on before you logged in?

[justsomeguy]

If you clicked on a link to get to the login page, then you would redirect to the referer. The referer for a page is the page where you clicked on a link to reach the current page. I believe that is in $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

[reportingsjr]

dont forget<meta http-equiv="refresh" url="0;http://domain.com/page.php" />

[LittleNicky]

If you clicked on a link to get to the login page, then you would redirect to the referer. The referer for a page is the page where you clicked on a link to reach the current page. I believe that is in $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

OK cool, so would the code be header(Location: $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); ?

[justsomeguy]

Right, but you need quotes around it:header("Location: {$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']}");