Tuesday, 23 January 2018

Safe redirect

This little function ensures that visitors are really redirected to a specified URL.

At first the function will try to redirect the user by using the header() location method, then by JavaScript and META-Refresh and finally if everything failed there is also a ordinary link to the new URL.

function safe_redirect($url, $exit=true) {

    // Only use the header redirection if headers are not already sent
    if (!headers_sent()){

        header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
        header('Location: ' . $url);

        // Optional workaround for an IE bug (thanks Olav)
        header("Connection: close");
    }

    // HTML/JS Fallback:
    // If the header redirection did not work, try to use various methods other methods

    print '<html>';
    print '<head><title>Redirecting you...</title>';
    print '<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url='.$url.'" />';
    print '</head>';
    print '<body onload="location.replace(\''.$url.'\')">';

    // If the javascript and meta redirect did not work,
    // the user can still click this link
    print 'You should be redirected to this URL:<br />';
    print "<a href="$url">$url</a><br /><br />";

    print 'If you are not, please click on the link above.<br />';   

    print '</body>';
    print '</html>';

    // Stop the script here (optional)
    if ($exit) exit;
}
safe_redirect('http://www.example.org/');

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