string replace using header

[dave1236]

I define a registered user by using the following:

.str_replace("tracking",$_SESSION['tracking'],$link).

I thought I could simply take that string above and replace

header("Location: $externalurl");

with

header("Location: $.str_replace("tracking",$_SESSION['tracking'],$link");

but that does not actually work! I then tried defining a new variable:

$URL = .str_replace("tracking",$_SESSION['tracking'],$link);
header("Location: $URL");

but that didn't work either...

Thoughts?

[mrnoisy]

I can see a couple of syntax errors: remove the '$' and '.' from before the str_replace function.

[eelixduppy]

Actually that wouldn't result correctly, either. Using both your techniques you can do this:

$URL = str_replace("tracking",$_SESSION['tracking'],$link); //I just removed the period
header("Location: $URL");

Or you can do this:

header("Location: ".str_replace("tracking",$_SESSION['tracking'],$link);

For more information about what is accomplished here, refer to the String Operators Documentation [us2.php.net]

:)