I am trying to use
header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/gamecode.php?gameid=$pw");
below is my code.
<?php
header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/gamecode.php?gameid=$pw");
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost","placeholder","placeholder","placeholder");
//or die ('unable to connect');
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
//create random table name
$alpha = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
$numeric = "0123456789";
$special = ".-+=_,!@$#*%<>[]{}";
$chars = "";
if (isset($_POST['length'])){
// if you want a form like above
if (isset($_POST['alpha']) && $_POST['alpha'] == 'on')
$chars .= $alpha;
if (isset($_POST['alpha_upper']) && $_POST['alpha_upper'] == 'on')
$chars .= $alpha_upper;
if (isset($_POST['numeric']) && $_POST['numeric'] == 'on')
$chars .= $numeric;
if (isset($_POST['special']) && $_POST['special'] == 'on')
$chars .= $special;
$length = $_POST['length'];
}else{
// default [a-zA-Z0-9]{9}
$chars = $alpha . $numeric;
$length = 6;
}
$len = strlen($chars);
$pw = '';
for ($i=0;$i<$length;$i++)
$pw .= substr($chars, rand(0, $len-1), 1);
// the finished password
$pw = str_shuffle($pw);
//using the $pw variable for the table name
$sql="CREATE TABLE `" . $pw . "` (
PID INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
PRIMARY KEY(PID),
Name CHAR(15))";
if (mysqli_query($con,$sql))
{
echo "table was created";
}
else
{
echo "Did not create table";
}
mysqli_close($con);
above is the page i am trying to add the variable to the URL. I do get the the page redirect however it is not adding the header variable to the redirect as it should.
Try like
header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.php?gameid='.$gmid);
You need to change the quotes before the variable or You can also try with double quotes
like
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.php?gameid=$gmid");
try this:
header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.php?gameid=' . $gmid);
Change your quotes to double quotes.
use double quotes instead of single quote, so change to:
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.php?gameid=$gmid");
or
header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.php?gameid='.$gmid);
Double quotes, will evaluate variable values before producing the final output, which single quote does not.
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.php?gameid=$gmid");
see the quotes.... "
instead of '
.
You have problem with quotes and double quotes: Change your line to this :
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.php?gameid=$gmid");
or this:
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.php?gameid=".$gmid);
If you do '$variable'
, it will be interpreted as string and :
echo '$variable'
; will show $variable as output . But if you use "$variable" , echo will output value of this variable.