Question

Suppose I have this script :

http://www.example.com/profile.php?uid=12345

And inside this script, there’s a send message feature which is handled by sendmessage.php. What sendmessage.php actually does is to INSERT something into the database then redirect back to where user started (profile.php?uid=12345).

I tried to use header(“Location: profile.php”).

But since profile.php requires ?uid=12345 in the URL [and it’s dynamic], my redirect plan is not working.

How do I ‘pass’ the current URL. In my case ‘profile.php?uid=12345’ to sendmessage.php using the GET method. And then, once sendmessage.php has completed processing, send the user back to their own screen (profile.php?uid=12345)?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In your profile.php?uid=12345 if you are using form to send data to sendmessage.php
then you can have a hidden field like –

<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']?>">

Then in sendmessage.php you can use header("Location: ".$_REQUEST['redirect_to']);‘