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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Adding a Basic Form Redirection

Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar
1,063 Points
Posted by Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar
1,063 Points

i am not understanding why it is showing warning and echo "hello world"; please tell me process of this ..

<?php

echo "Hello World!";

header("Location: includelist.php");

1 Answer

Serhii Lihus
Serhii Lihus
6,352 Points
Serhii Lihus
Serhii Lihus
6,352 Points

Hi there Amit Kumar!

Answer will be pretty simple. You can not send text output before headers. That's why it will show you a warning and doesn't redirect you to another page.

If you want to store the text and show after redirect, you need to use buffer in order to store content between redirects. Or simply add the parameter to the query string inside redirect.

Inside query string.

header("Location: includelist.php?string=Hello%20world");

Inside buffer.

ob_start();
echo "Hello world.";
$result = ob_get_clean();
header("Location: includelist.php");
exit();

Best regards.