Hello everyone,

I am using a login area in my website in order the user to login to the website and be able to buy items online.I want when the user logins and verifies the identity to redirect to another page (page basket) in order the user to see his items. I have created the login page and verifyies the identity however my problem is that does not redirect the user to the next page it just reloads the same page.In order to redirect the user i use the function header after the verification of the user. I will post here the code and I would really appreciate your help.

<table width="490" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <th width="293" valign="top" class="descriptiontitle" scope="col"><div align="left">Please fill in the details to login </div></th>
          </tr>
        <tr>
          <th valign="top" class="descriptiontitle" scope="col">&nbsp;</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th valign="top" scope="col"> 
          <form name="login" method="post" action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> 
          
            <table width="185" border="0" align="center">
           <tr>
             <td><label><span class="body">Username:</span></label></td>
             <td><input name="user" type="text" class="body"></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
             <td><label><span class="body">Password</span>:</label></td>
             <td><input name="pass" type="password" class="body"></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
             <td>&nbsp;</td>
             <td><input name="submit" type="submit" class="body" value="Login"></td>
           </tr>
           </table>
      </form>      </th>
          </tr>
        <tr>
          <th valign="top" scope="col">
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PHP Code:

          <table width="185" align="center">
          <tr>
           <td width="756">
<? if (isset($_POST['submit']))
            {//If submit button has been clicked
                
            
            //First check if there is data and is valid
            
            
            //check for the username
            if (empty($_POST['user]))
                {
                     $user=FALSE;
                        echo '<p class=\'errorregister\'>You forgot to enter your username</p>';
                 }else {
                             $user=$_POST['user'];
                            }

            if (empty($_POST['pass']))
                {
                    $pass=FALSE;
                    echo '<p class=\'errorregister\'>You forgot to enter your password</p>';
                 }else {
                             $pass=$_POST['pass'];
                            }

            
            if ($user && $pass){
    
    $query = "SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE user= '$user' and pass=PASSWORD('$pass')";
    $result = @mysql_query($query);
    $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
    
        if ($row){
                    $_SESSION['user']=$row['user'];
                    $_SESSION['pass']=$row['pass'];
            ob_end_clean();//Delete the buffer
            echo "welcome";
            header ("Location: http://domain.co.uk/basket.php");
            exit();
                
                }else {
                            echo '<p class=\'errorregister\'>Your username and password do not match</p>';
                        }
                        mysql_close();
                        
                    }
    else { //if username and password had problem 
                                echo '<p class=\'errorregister\'>Please try again';
                            }
                
}//end of submit conditional


?>           </td>
          </tr>
      </table>

          </th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th valign="top" scope="col"><div align="left" class="body"><span class="confirm">Note:</span> if you don't have an account please <a href="regi.php">register</a> </div></th>
        </tr>
      </table>

Thank you,
Xenia

After a succeffull login I too redirect using the header function.

Your form posts to itself so there is no way that you can access basket after a post unless you redirect using header (or some other method).



Ibbo

My understanding is that once you have written anything to the page (which is converted to HTML) then the headers are automatically sent, and you can't send them twice.

Have you tried using a META refresh or a javascript redirect??

You cannot have any html/text before your header: location code