PHP Redirection

[dirkfirst]

Is it better to add an HTML redirection or to do PHP redirection?
How is redirection done using PHP?

[TkTech]

in php its simple:

<?php
header("Location: http://google.com");
?>

simply put that on the top of your php page and change "http://google.com" to whatever.

[the-chad]

your browser will not cache the page if you do that tho.

use this if you want the browser to cache the page:

PHP Code:

<?php
 header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
 header("Location: http://google.com");
?>

[Crane]

I'd say PHP.

Isn't it better if the browser doesn't cache?

[the-chad]

depends on what your doing. If its a perm redirect it would be good if the browser cached the page.

But if you change it alot then no it will be a bad idea.

[Kaabi]

A PHP redirect looks a lot simpler than an HTML redirect. I thought it was going to be all complicated, but it wasn't.