Dear All,
        I have an Asp background but am new to php. I have a system which supports two types of users General & Administrator. They will be logging in from a single page. The user id will be verified with the database to determine whether he is a general or admin user.
        According to that he will redirected to his respective home page. In ASP it can be easily achieved by Response.Redirect / Server.Transfer command. But I am unable to find a suitable command in php.

        Also I tried using header("Location: URL"); command but it turned out to be unsuitable, as I need to use HTML content in the page before it.(This is because I need to show the error messages generated by the Database queries like invalid password etc. in a formatted output.)
        But the header command's pre-requisite seems to be not to send any html code before it.
        Can this problem be solved at all. Any help will be appreciated.

                Thanks in Advance
                            Zicaden

If you're displaying content to the user, it doesn't make sense to redirect right away, which is what the header("Location: URL") method does for you. The user wouldn't have any chance at reading your error messages.

I suggest you use javascript and/or a meta-refresh tag if you'd like to redirect the user to a different page after one page is loaded for a given amount of time.


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Dear Nikolai,
              I thank you for your response. Could you please provide me with a sample code for the equivalent in Javascript or Meta/Refresh. Actually I know vbscript only.

                                        Zicaden.

Search google for several examples of each:

  http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+redirect
  http://www.google.com/search?&q=meta+refresh


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/