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James Matthews
James Matthews

Reputation: 21

echo out message after redirect?

I have a button on users profiles that allows another user to add a user to their favorites. Once this button is clicked they are linked to the sql process file favorite.php.

Once the sql script has run it links the user back to the original profile page which is profile.php.

now what i want to do is find out how i can echo a message on the page profile.php after the sql has completed. I've tried the following but nothing happens.

can someone please show me what i'd need to do to get this working? thank you

favorite.php:

<?php

require_once('includes/session.php');
require_once('includes/functions.php');
require('includes/_config/connection.php');

session_start();

    confirm_logged_in();

    if (isset ($_GET['to'])) {
    $user_to_id = $_GET['to'];


}


if (!isset($_GET['to']))
    exit('No user specified.');

$user_id = $_GET['to'];

$result = mysql_query("INSERT INTO ptb_favorites (user_id, favorite_id) VALUES (".$_SESSION['user_id'].", ".$user_to_id.")") 
or die(mysql_error()); 

header("Location: profile.php?id=" . $user_to_id['user_id'] . "added=1");


?>

profile.php:

<?
if (isset($_GET['added']) && $_GET['added'] == 1) {
            $message = "<div class=\"infobox\">This user was successfully added to your favorites.</div>"; ?>

            <? } ?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 335

Answers (1)

mario
mario

Reputation: 145482

Your redirected URL will look like this:

 profile.php?id=123456added=1
 #                   ^

Notice the missing & in the parameters. Adapt your header() call and include it before the "added=1" concat.

 header("Location: profile.php?id=" . $user_to_id['user_id'] . "&added=1");
 #                                                              ^

On a related note, you would have found out earlier if it wasn't for that isset:

 if (isset($_GET['added']) && $_GET['added'] == 1) {

Leave it out, as this is a required param and you want to get a note for such occassions. Instead just turn of notices/warnings on your production server.

Upvotes: 2

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