a small problem ! I have a login form in a PHP file. I have used javascript validation for the form. On a login success scenario i am redirecting the user to their home page.
I have used header("Location:index.php").
I know that the header must be before any output must be sent to the browser. My question is there any walk around to do this redirection?
You could use
<script>
window.location = 'http://www.example.com/newlocation';
</script>
to redirect after the headers are sent.
If you using javascript Use this
window.location.href = "index.php";
If you are ready to use the JavaScript you can use any one of the following method.
1.window.location.assign('http://www.example.com');
2.window.location = 'http://www.example.com';
3.window.location.href = 'http://www.example.com';
Apart from using header() to redirect, you can use meta refresh method, or JS window.location method.
I just wanted to add a quick note to the previous answers. if you want to use JavaScript for redirection generating the script form the server-side is more secure.
<?php
$script = "<script>
window.location = 'http://www.example.com/newlocation';</script>";
echo $script;
?>
header()to function even header is already sent..