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kevstarlive
kevstarlive

Reputation: 260

Header location to remain the same

I am currently creating a podcast website where I have a form for my users to enter a comment on the current episode they are listening to.

All my content is stored in mysql and data on my episode page is displayed like so

http://www.mysite.com/episode.php?id=1

With separate content for the episode.

On this post adding to database no repeat on refresh

I mentioned about the form resubmitting on refresh which is why I added 

header('Location: index.php');

However. I would like this to visit the same page with a thank you message echoed.

I have tried 

header('Location: episode.php?id=<?php echo $data['cast_id']; ?>');
echo "thank you";

But this brings back the error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING

Please can someone advise me on the best way to do this? Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 129

Answers (2)

Prince Singh
Prince Singh

Reputation: 5183

header('Location: episode.php?id=<?php echo $data['cast_id']; ?>');

you are using php tags in already started php tags.

you can simply do this ..

session_start(); // make sure session is up and running
// just before redirecting 

$_SESSION['thankyou_msg'] = 1;
    header('Location: episode.php?id='.$data['cast_id']);

now on index.php.


session_start(); 

if(isset($_SESSION['thankyou_msg'])){
   echo "your thankyou message here";
   unset($_SESSION['thankyou_msg']);
}

Upvotes: 1

Sumit Bijvani
Sumit Bijvani

Reputation: 8179

header() function is php function, so why you start php in it? Also add exit() and store message in SESSION variable.

$_SESSION['msg'] = "thank you";
header("Location: episode.php?id=$data['cast_id']");
exit();

Upvotes: 1

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