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PHP Introduction to User Authentication in PHP Setting Up Authorization Creating Helper Functions

Posted by lukej
lukej
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What is the difference between `header()` and `redirect()`

What is the difference between header() and redirect() in PHP? I can not find any information about this redirect() function.

2 Answers

Alena Holligan
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Alena Holligan
Treehouse Teacher
Alena Holligan
Alena Holligan
Treehouse Teacher

redirect is a custom function while header is a built-in function. Setting up our own redirect allows us to add more options to the redirect. We could use the built-in header function or, the Symfony\HttpFoundation package. We could control status codes and 'exit' to make sure no other code on that page attempts to run after the redirect.

Pascal Boschma
Pascal Boschma
379 Points
Pascal Boschma
Pascal Boschma
379 Points

redirect() isn't a PHP function. You can redirect with header() though. However, you could make a function with that name yourself.

header("Location: http://www.example.com/");