php constants / header location

marc2003 · 21 Nov 2007 at 19:57

bah. i've been dabbling with php for a few months on and off and have only just discovered constants.

very useful.

i was expecting this to work but it doesn't....

Code:

define(PAGE, 'blah.php');
....
header("Location: PAGE");

i've also tried

Code:

header("Location: '.PAGE.'");

but that didn't work either. as you can tell i have no idea what i'm doing. is there anyway i can get this to work?

SiriusB · 21 Nov 2007 at 20:01

I believe the "header" has to be the first thing that gets outputted to the browser. Maybe define(PAGE, "blah.php"); is sending something to the browser before "header"

marc2003 · 21 Nov 2007 at 20:08

nope, i don't get that sort of error. it literally passes the text PAGE to the browser instead of the value of PAGE

Code:

$string = 'blah.php';
header("Location: $string");

works just fine. but the reason i want to use define is because i can use it in functions without having to worry about declaring global variables or anything like that.

robmiller · 21 Nov 2007 at 20:10

Code:

header('Location: ' . PAGE);

marc2003 · 21 Nov 2007 at 20:20

gah. you're supposed to insult me for being such a numpty. cheers.