Question

After a successful authentication I send the user to the home page by calling header

if($success) {
    header('Location: home.php');
    exit();
}

Ulitimatley I’d like to use a hashtag as part of the URL so for instance the URL to the user would look like this:

mysite/#!home

Can I do something like this or is there a better way to redirect them to the home page after a successful login?

Answer 1

That sort of hash tag is usually used with what is called, “addressing” or “deep linking”, a type of javascript page navagation. What you want is URL Rewriting, which allows you to do things like http://www.website.com/home

Deep Linking : http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/

Url rewrite: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html