Right now I have a registration page that has the user fill out a whole bunch of information and when they hit submit it reloads the same page but gets picked up by PHP for validation and to add the information to the database. If there is a problem it just echos the fact that there is a problem and then displays the html form again to correct the problems, otherwise I want it to redirect to another page. My question, how do I best go around having it redirect to that other page? Should I just use 'include' and actually keep it on the same page?

The way to do a redirect is with a header like this:

PHP Code:

header("Location: http://www.mywebsite.com/my/new/location.php"); 


This needs to happen before any HTML is outputted, like the document type or any other header information.

Is that efficient? Is that the way that most sites do it when they are done validating on one page?

It is accomplished using a standard http header. Every web programming language has its own built in functions for sending the exact same header via the standard http header protocol. It is the best way to do redirects without breaking the back button, and causes no noticeable delays whatsoever.

Awesome thanks for the help!