Question

I’ve spent two days trying to make a login/logout panel in PHP. I’m using one PHP file which checks if you are already logged in by a session variable and echoes the appropriate “panel”.

The problem I have is that after logging in and out, I have to refresh the page so the other panel actually appears. I’ve found that in PHP is done through header() but I’m having a problem implementing that because I always get the headers have been sent thing. Anyway after many hours I decided to go with javascript, so I made a basic redirect(url) function that takes a URL and opens that page and I’m passing $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] to that so I go back to the same page, basically refreshing. But now I was thinking, If someone disables JS I’m going to have a problem with that.

Any alternatives I’m not aware of?
Cheers

Answer 1

Javascript Solution:

var newURL = "http://THE-URL.com";
document.location.href = newURL;

or

location.reload(true);

HTML solution:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://THE-URL.com">

PHP solution:

// taken from http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=228678.0
function redirect($loc){
    echo "<script>window.location.href='".$loc."'</script>";
}
function GoHere(){
    redirect('http://THE-URL.com');
}

or

header( "refresh: 2; url='http://THE-URL.com'" );

User Solution:

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