Supply extra command along with PHP header("Location&qu

alphaque · - Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1

Hi
I have an index.php file that use the PHP header(location) command to redirect to an external web site when user submit the "p" value as "123" in their source URL (i.e : www.xyz.com/index.php?p=123). Below is the example when user supply p=123, it will be redirected to www.abc.com :

//source PHP file - index.php
<?php
$a = $_REQUEST["p"];
switch ($a) {
case '123': header( "Location: http://www.abc.com"); exit; break;
}
?>

My problem is besides redirect the user to the destination URL (http://www.abc.com), i also want to pass along a line of java script to the destination URL which is like below :

<script>document.write('You are coming from www.xyz.com')</script>

The above script need to be executed at the detination web site (www.abc.com)before the HTML code of the www.abc.com is read. This means i want to pass the above script command to the destination URL and it is executed before the destination URL <HTML> tag,basically i want the destination web site source code to look something like below :

<script>document.write('You are coming from www.xyz.co')</script> //this script command is passed from the source PHP file

<html>
<head>abcde </head>
<body>scnsdjcsc</body?
</html>

Can anyone share with me how do i pass that script command in my PHP header (location) command in my source PHP file ?

thanks in advance..

AbyssUnderground · - Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 3855

You cannot pass the javascript but you can pass a PHP variable that will be read by the next page.
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aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

alphaque,

When you send a Location header, the browser will ignore the body of the response and will redirect to the value of the Location header. Under some circumstances, it is even the server itself which optimizes this and does an internal redirection.

So to have the body of the response processed by the browser, you'll have to not use Location and rather send a normal HTML page with a META REFRESH tag in its HEAD section. This way, you force the browser to process the page and the Javascript it may contain and then to redirect to another page.
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