Redirect to specified URL on PHP script completion?

Question

How can I get a PHP function go to a specific website when it is done running?

For example:

<?php

SOMETHING DONE

GOTO(http://example.com/thankyou.php);

?>

I know this is really simple, but I am just having a hard time finding it on the interweb!

Update: I guess I should have mentioned this. I would really like the following...

<?php

SOMETHING DONE

GOTO($url);

?>

Would this work with as the following?

<?php

SOMETHING DONE THAT SETS $url

header('Location: $url');

?>

Answer 1

If "SOMETHING DONE" doesn't invovle any output via echo/print/etc, then:

<?php
   // SOMETHING DONE

   header('Location: http://stackoverflow.com');
?>

Answer 2

<?php

// do something here

header("Location: http://example.com/thankyou.php");
?>

Answer 3

<?
ob_start(); // ensures anything dumped out will be caught

// do stuff here
$url = 'http://example.com/thankyou.php'; // this can be set based on whatever

// clear out the output buffer
while (ob_get_status()) 
{
    ob_end_clean();
}

// no redirect
header( "Location: $url" );
?>

Answer 4

Note that this will not work:

header('Location: $url');

You need to do this (for variable expansion):

header("Location: $url");

Answer 5

You could always just use the tag to refresh the page - or maybe just drop the necessary javascript into the page at the end that would cause the page to redirect. You could even throw that in an onload function, so once its finished, the page is redirected

<?php

  echo $htmlHeader;
  while($stuff){
    echo $stuff;
  }
  echo "<script>window.location = 'http://www.yourdomain.com'&lt;/script&gt;"
?>