having a bit of trouble getting the submit code for my forum, onclick its supposed to sumit using javascript (which works) then load the url using the php header function, at the moment the code doenst work, i can't get the syntax right!

   echo '<br><br><input type="button" value="'.$it.'" style="font-size:8px" onclick="javascript:submitit'.$ratecounter.'header (Location: index.php?page=Voting Successful)()">';

the last part 'header(Location: index.php?page=Voting Successful)()">';
is the only problem! anyone know how it should be written

cro,

I'm not completely sure about this, but I don't think you can have GET variables in the redirect. The PHP documentation doesn't really explain whether it is allowed or not. You might be able to send a variable over the redirect though, like so:

$page='Voting Successful';
header('Location: xxx');

Also, notice that you wrote 'header(Location: xxx)'. You need quotation marks inside the parenthesis: header('Location: xxx') or header("Location: xxx"), however I would recommend using single quotes ', because the php engine doesn't parse single quotes for variables, which makes your program run much faster. So, when writing strings with variables, use:

'This is a string with a '.$variable.'.'

instead of

"This is a string with a $variable."

Also, HTML standards say that you should close all tags that don't have closing tags with a '/'. For example, use '<br />' instead of '<br>' and '<img src="xxx" /> instead of '<img src="xxx">. It would be a good idea to start practicing this, as the old style is deprecated and will eventually die out. If you want to know more, I'd suggest taking a look at www.w3schools.com

Just one small comment...

> I'm not completely sure about this, but I don't think you can have GET variables in the redirect.

That's not true, the redirect is simply telling the browser a new location, which can include query strings, anchors, etc.



Regards,
Rich

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Yeah, You can post all of the GET variables you want. It won't work with spaces however. You need to change your value to a one without a space, or replace them with a '+'. I am not sure how the $_GET superglobal will handle the value though. I have never needed to have a space in gets.

For spaces and other special characters, use urlencode() and urldecode(), respectfully.

http://www.php.net/urlencode
http://www.php.net/urldecode

Additionally the browser is generally pretty tolerant of spaces in GET values, so not encoding the value won't keep the application from working. ?get=Some Value just becomes ?get=Some%20Value and PHP still sees it as "Some Value".


Regards,
Rich

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try using objest buffering for this purpose.
i am sure it will work perfectly.

regards,
-Jay