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Joshc
Joshc

Reputation: 3853

How to make PHP header location redirect use PHP generated URL

This is fairly simple but I cant work it out.

I'm building a wordpress site, and I want a redirect on my 404 page using PHP instead of javascript.

<?php header("Location: www.myblogurl.com"); ?>

And I use this in my wordrpess websites to get the URL of my blog...

<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>


But I can't seem to merge the two PHP scripts together, please see my poor attempt below.

<?php

    $location = bloginfo('url');

    header( 'Location:' + $location ) ;

?>

This seems to echo my website URL instead of redirecting.

Can any help me please, thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 18129

Answers (6)

Mircea Soaica
Mircea Soaica

Reputation: 2817

try to use get_bloginfo() instead of bloginfo() and replace the + with .

Upvotes: 1

ab_dev86
ab_dev86

Reputation: 1982

Well first correct + with .

String concatenation works in php with .

 <?php

$location = bloginfo('url');

header( 'Location: ' . $location ) ;

?>

Upvotes: 1

erikvimz
erikvimz

Reputation: 5476

Use a dot (.) not a plus (+).

header( 'Location:' . $location ) ;

Upvotes: 0

jeffery_the_wind
jeffery_the_wind

Reputation: 18218

<?php

    $location = bloginfo('url');

    header( 'Location:'.$location ) ;

?>

This should be your syntax.

Upvotes: 0

Wouter J
Wouter J

Reputation: 41934

bloginfo in wordpress echo's the information instead of returning it. You should use get_bloginfo.

The docs says:

This always prints a result to the browser. If you need the values for use in PHP, use get_bloginfo().

A sample would be:

<?php
header('Location: ' . get_bloginfo('url'));
?>

You are using the + to concatenate 2 strings. This is wrong in PHP the + is a math operator for things like $result = 1 + 1. You need to use the . operator: $text = 'hello' . 'world'.

Upvotes: 9

web-nomad
web-nomad

Reputation: 6003

Use this:

<?php

    $location = bloginfo('url');

    header( 'Location:' . $location ) ;

?>

You were using Javascript syntax for concatenation in PHP

Upvotes: 0

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