php redirection with form values

Question

I am a beginner at php, but I want to write a script that will redirect me to an address with an attribute equal to the value of a form input. Is this the correct way?

index.html

<form action="process.php" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your Name" />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

and heres process.php:

<?
    header('Location: level1.html?name=' . $_POST['name']);
?>

For some reason, it doesn't work. Is there a better way? Thanks!

Ensure your header tag is above any code that has been outputted on the page (even a space before <? would cause an error). — Oliver Tappin
– Oliver Tappin, Commented Feb 17, 2013 at 0:22
thanks, this worked, I always skip a line before starting my code — Thomas Lai
– Thomas Lai, Commented Feb 17, 2013 at 0:25
Probably it is because your line is not above of all lines as @Titanium said. You even need to be sure that your document not using UTF char set with BOM. — Soroush Falahati
– Soroush Falahati, Commented Feb 17, 2013 at 0:25

sybear · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-17 00:20:32Z

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<?
    header('Location: level1.html?name=' . $_POST['name']);
?>

change TO

<?php
    header('Location: level1.html?name=' . $_POST['name']);
?>

Edit:

Make sure you do not output anything before using header()

answered Feb 17, 2013 at 0:20

sybear

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Tomáš Zato Over a year ago

This will only help if OP has SHORT_OPEN_TAGS set to false.

Oliver Tappin Over a year ago

That shouldn't make a difference.

GameBug · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-17 01:10:00Z

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I would suggest you to look into asynchronous post, it's faster and no need to deal with php header (especially it won't work if you have any markup language written before that), where you can simply use js/jQuery to forward with any values anywhere. Unless js is turned off.

answered Feb 17, 2013 at 1:10

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