I currently have a very simple page that redirects to another URL. However for some reason, I cannot get this to work.
I'm sure there is a very simple solution to this problem and any help to make me understand exactly what's going on would be appreciated.
Here is my page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test - Youtube</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
ob_start();
header('Location: vnd.youtube:xjTEqVQVsQs');
ob_end_flush();
?>
</body>
</html>
Thanks
You are having some Outputs on your page before sending header and that's why you can not redirect, you should use output buffering like this:
<?php
ob_start();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test - Youtube</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
header('Location: vnd.youtube:xjTEqVQVsQs');
die();
?>
</body>
</html>
<?php
ob_end_flush();
?>
This is how the code should look like:
<?php
ob_start();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test - Youtube</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
header('Location: vnd.youtube:xjTEqVQVsQs'); // Are you sure that's the right
address?
?>
</body>
</html>
<?php
ob_end_flush();
?>
Anyway, the page is redirecting to another page, why do you need the html tags?
<?php
ob_start();
header('Location: vnd.youtube:xjTEqVQVsQs');
ob_end_flush();
?>
remove all the html except above php code if it's only a redirect page.
You should remove all the page content except PHP script:
<?php
ob_start();
header('Location: vnd.youtube:xjTEqVQVsQs');
ob_end_flush();
?>
Or
put your PHP script on top of the page:
<?php
ob_start();
header('Location: vnd.youtube:xjTEqVQVsQs');
ob_end_flush();
?>
Make sure there is no empty space before php tag above.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test - Youtube</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
As redirect sends headers to the browser it MUST be sent before any output. You can use the method below to redirect using a different method depending on whether the headers have been sent:
<?php
function redirect($filename) {
if ( ! headers_sent())
header('Location: '.$filename);
exit; // just a good practice to EXIT after redirecting
else {
echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
echo 'window.location.href="'.$filename.'";';
echo '</script>';
echo '<noscript>';
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url='.$filename.'" />';
echo '</noscript>';
}
}
redirect('http://www.google.com');
?>
This will fallback to using javascript if the headers have already been sent.
If you want to use the header() method it must be at the top of your code before any other output (including whitespace).