Question

Due to some unforeseen reason, I cannot use a *.php extension for my page. And I need to put conditional redirection in the page.

I plan to use *.html, and javascript/Ajax to call a PHP which evaluates the condition
and accordingly sends back a redirection command.

The condition is being evaluated, but how can I give a redirection command from this internal PHP is not clear to me.

Answer 1

You can actually map all your .html files to .php using .htaccess.

If that doesn’t work for you, your logic should be as follows:

PHP:

echo json_encode(array("redirect_url" => $url));

Javascript with jQuery (assuming you require AJAX to redirect):

$.getJSON("PHP/Controller/Url", function(data) {
    window.location.href = data.redirect_url;
});

Javascript (if you simply serve a static html file)

<script>
window.location.href = "redirect_url";
</script>