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RJParikh
RJParikh

Reputation: 4166

Header location not locating/redirecting as per condition

Here I have written that if...else condition with different header location.

$a = "yahoo";
if($a == "yahoo")
{
header('location:http://www.yahoo.com');
}else{
header('location:http://www.gmail.com');
}

header('location:http://www.google.com');

Problem:

In above code if condition is true then also it will redirecting to google.com

As per my opinion I think its first goes into if condition and then redirect to given location and other below code will not executed.

When I will write exit() or die() with every header It will work.

Question

Can anyone suggest me where its create issue?

Why without exit() or die() its not working?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 246

Answers (2)

Jimmmy
Jimmmy

Reputation: 579

as you can find in this comment on docs: http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#85254

Headers are overwriten by themselfs. Therefore if you do not stop executing your code, your header is changed to 'google' and after that sent to the user..

Upvotes: 1

Ardit Meti
Ardit Meti

Reputation: 581

The "Location:" header. Not only does it send this header back to the browser, but it also returns a REDIRECT (302) status code to the browser unless the 201 or a 3xx status code has already been set.

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/"); /* Redirect browser */

/* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
exit;
?>

You can read more about this at the php manual php header

Upvotes: 2

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