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If you want to redirect the user to an URL, you can use the header function to send a Location HTTP header :

header('Location: http://www.example.com/new-url.php');
die;

(In theory, you should use an absolute URL that includes the domain name -- but most browsers accept a non-absolute URL)

You can use this wherever you want in your script, even inside a if-block, of course.

The only thing is, as you are setting an HTTP-header : you must not have sent any kind of output before (not even a white space at the end of an included file).

Pascal MARTIN 2009-12-17 17:37:47

Okay, thanks! So I could do this to add variable to URL:header('Location: http://www.example.com/new-url.php?ref='. $ref .'');

phpmasterNOT 2009-12-17 17:41:00

Also be careful when you pass variables, one bad example: header('Location: example.com/$_GET["url"].php')

Jay Zeng 2009-12-17 17:42:20

Yes, you can add variables to the URL : you just have to build the URL you want to redirect to ;-)

Pascal MARTIN 2009-12-17 18:41:46

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