I have one bit of code in a file:

PHP Code:

<?php
session_start ();
require '../authAdmin.php';
?>

and this is in authAdmin.php:

PHP Code:

<?php

// restrict certain pages with this script
// forward user to login page if not logged in

if ($_SESSION['userId'] != 1) {
    header ('Location: ' . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
    exit;
}

?>

But instead of forwarding to the root directory, I keep getting this very unhelpful error message:

Parse error: parse error in C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\penguinpages.co.uk\script\ph p\authAdmin.php on line 7

Ive been trying for about half an hour to fix it and am getting nowhere. Ive even tried replacing the $_SERVER variable with the actual path. If I echo the $_SERVER variable it appears correct!?

It looks like you forgot to close your parens on your call to header:

PHP Code:

header('Location: ' . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']); 


Nevermind .

Originally Posted by NullPointer

It looks like you forgot to close your parens on your call to header:

PHP Code:

header('Location: ' . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']); 


Genius! Thanks, but unfortunately, this brings me back to the problem I had before. No error is generated... but the page just doesn't do anything at all! Hmmmm. Could it be anything to do with me testing the server locally using XAMPP?

It might be your generating output before the header redirect http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php. This would generate 'headers already sent' error if you have full error reporting.

Try this at the top of the script

PHP Code:

ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1) 


Also you need to redirect to a specific page

PHP Code:

header ('Location: index.php');