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In this tutorial I will show you how to redirect pages in PHP. You can find all important aspects and code examples about PHP redirecting.

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PHP redirect page

Time to time it can be useful to redirect your visitor automatically to an other web page. Fortunately redirecting pages using PHP is quite an easy task.

To make a redirection you can use the header() function. This function send a raw HTTP header to the browser. As result the browser will be redirected to the page defined in this new HTTP header. You only have to take care that header() must be called before any actual output is sent. It means you can not use and html tags, echo or print functions. Below is an example how to use redirection in PHP:

Code: 
<?php
    header('Location:http://www.php.net');
    $f = fopen('demo.txt','w+');
    fwrite($f,'Test');
    fclose($f);
?>
 
 
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Code: 
<?php
    header('Location:http://www.php.net');
    die();
    $f = fopen('demo.txt','w+');
    fwrite($f,'Test');
    fclose($f);
?>
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Code: 
<?php
   ob_start();
   echo "Test";
   header("Location: http://www.php.net");
   ob_flush();
?> 
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