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Milos Stankovic
15,691 PointsRedirection to the thanks.php page is not working
On my localhost (php 5.6), the redirection to the thanks.php page is not working. I got error:
"headers already sent..."
This is fixed when I delete all echo lines in process.php file.
Check this...
2 Answers
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Milos,
Which course is this from and can you link to the video you're currently on?
This is the expected behavior if output buffering is turned off. Header redirects will not work if you have any kind of output to the page before the header redirect. The echo statements you have as well as a blank line at the top of the file before the opening php tag would all count as output to the page and stop a redirect from happening.
If output buffering is turned on then the header redirect would still work because the output is buffered instead of being sent.
You likely have output buffering turned off in your local installation. The php environment within workspaces has output buffering turned on. So it should work in workspaces even with the echo statements in place.
Milos Stankovic
15,691 PointsHi Jason,
Thank you for the suggestion. When I enabled output_buffering in php.ini, now page redirects even with echo commands uncommented.
Cheers, Milos
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsJason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsIf you'd like to see what your output_buffering directive is set to you can add
phpinfo(INFO_CONFIGURATION);to the top of your page and it should give you a table of directives and their values.Look for
output_bufferingand see what the value is. If it's 'no value' or 'off' or maybe even 0 then it means output buffering is turned off.