Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:10 pm
This is a little function I borrowed from phpBB (and modified a pinch) to handle redirects...
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function redirect($url)
{
// The $site_data global is an array of settings
// that manage the basic server params
global $site_data;
if (strstr(urldecode($url), "\n") || strstr(urldecode($url), "\r"))
{
// This is a custom error handler
set_error('Tried to redirect to potentially insecure url.');
}
$server_protocol = ($site_data['cookie_secure']) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
$server_name = preg_replace('#^\/?(.*?)\/?$#', '\1', trim($site_data['server_name']));
$server_port = ($site_data['server_port'] <> 80) ? ':' . trim($site_data['server_port']) : '';
$script_name = preg_replace('#^\/?(.*?)\/?$#', '\1', trim($site_data['script_path']));
$script_name = ($script_name == '') ? $script_name : '/' . $script_name;
$url = preg_replace('#^\/?(.*?)\/?$#', '/\1', trim($url));
// Some servers don't handle header redirects properly, so we need to account for that
if (@preg_match('/Microsoft|WebSTAR|Xitami/', getenv('SERVER_SOFTWARE')))
{
header('Refresh: 0; URL=' . $server_protocol . $server_name . $server_port . $script_name . $url);
echo '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=' . $server_protocol . $server_name . $server_port . $script_name . $url . '"><title>Redirect</title></head><body><div align="center">If your browser does not support meta redirection please click <a href="' . $server_protocol . $server_name . $server_port . $script_name . $url . '">HERE</a> to be redirected</div></body></html>';
exit;
}
// Behave as per HTTP/1.1 spec for others
header('Location: ' . $server_protocol . $server_name . $server_port . $script_name . $url);
exit;
}