HTTP redirects based on URL

[aspr1n]

Thought I'd share this on as it's taken me a while to figure it out, if anyone knows of an easier way please let me know.

I wanted to do an http redirect if the user's authentication had failed:

$NewPage = 'login'; 
if(!authenticated() ) { 
 $NewURL = preg_replace( "[\w+(?=\.php)]", $NewPage, $_SERVER[ "SCRIPT_URI" ] ); 
 header( "location: $NewURL\r\n" ); 
} 
else 
do something... 

asp

[toadhall]

This is a lot less work:

if(!authenticated() ) {
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=path/to/file.ext">';
} else {
echo 'do something...';
}

T

[aspr1n]

if (!authenticated() ) {
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=path/to/file.ext">';
}
else
{
echo 'do something...';
}

Yep certainly is - but I'd need to know what "path/to/" was.

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[toadhall]

The "path/to" would be the same as the path to the script you're running - the path extracted from SCRIPT_URI.

'login.php' must reside at the end of that same path as you're slipping it in the place of the original file name via the preg_replace().

Seeing as the two files are residing in the same directory, just enter login.php in the meta refresh, it will redirect to that file if (!authentication()).

T