How to redirect from a php page to a HTML page?

[wasabihowdi]

Hey guys,

I would like to know how to redirect from a php page (A.php) to a HTML page <B.html)?

I've done some string processing and stored in a variable in A.php and would like to redirect to B.html and display the result of the string process.

Is it possible?

Thanks!

Howdi

[Xardas der Dunkle]

It is possible, but why you don't display them on A.php?

The A.php:

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<?php
  $var = 'Hello World';

  header('Location: B.php?var=' . urlencode($var));
?>

The B.php:

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<?php
 echo $_GET['var'];
?>

bye

[sari42]

you can only move data to a .htm(l) page by means of GET (uri), POST (form) or COOKIE variables and displaying them using javascript


IMHO - I may be wrong though

p.s.
if you use a.php to create b.html you can use
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; URL=b.html">
at the end of a.php

[Xardas der Dunkle]

A refresh with the <meta>-Tag is not the best way, I think.
If you use the Apache it is mutch better to use the Location-Header for redirect.

[sari42]

A refresh with the <meta>-Tag is not the best way, I think.
If you use the Apache it is mutch better to use the Location-Header for redirect.

ok,
but then you can't output anything on a.php or have to use buffering (ob_start...)

but the effect is the same, no?

[Xardas der Dunkle]

The problem with the meta-refresh is that, it not work always and it not redirect directly like the location-header.

The problem with the location-header is, that it not work with other webservers like the iis .

[Nobbie]

Why not simply include the file?

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<?php
...
    include('B.html');
...
?>


This results in an output of B.html and all variables of A.php are available in B.html - nothing is easier than that!

Regards
Nobbie

[sari42]

The problem with the meta-refresh is that, it not work always and it not redirect directly like the location-header.

The problem with the location-header is, that it not work with other webservers like the iis :?.

well,
but the OP asked for b.html, not b.php

and <meta ... works as well as location... - you can even provide both ;)

any info when "meta redirect" doesn't work, but "header('location..." does?

[Xardas der Dunkle]

@Nobbie
In a html-file are php-variables not available ... except you have tell the Webserver that it have to parse html-files, by the php-interpreter, too.

[sari42]

Why not simply include the file?

you can't "include" html files
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correction:
php can include any (text) file,
if the redirect is not needed nobbie's solution is the most elegant ;)
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doesn't answer the question of the OP

[Xardas der Dunkle]

Why not simply include the file?

you can't "include" html files
you only can use file_get_contents('....html'), but that doesn't answer the question of the OP

You can, but they will not be parsed.

[Nobbie]

>you can't "include" html files

What?? Of course you can.

And they will be parsed (Of course again!).

@Xardas
>In a html-file are php-variables not available ... except you have tell the Webserver that it have to parse html-files, by the php-interpreter, too.

No, you are wrong. You have to tell a webserver to call PHP if you enter HTML file name via URL. But if PHP is already active, ALL(!) files are parsed which are included. Always. Does not matter which extensions these have. Included files are parsed!

[sari42]

>Included files are parsed!
well,
but html files usually don't have <?php tags included
(sorry if I didn't expressed correctly what I wanted to say..),
otherwise I don't see a reason not to give them the .php extension.

[Nobbie]

>but html files usually don't have <?php tags included
(sorry if I didn't expressed correctly what I wanted to say..),

But it is exactly that, what "wasabihowdi" did and what is looking for:

I've done some string processing and stored in a variable in A.php and would like to redirect to B.html and display the result of the string process.

And for this scenario the include() is the perfect solution.

By the way: I also include PHP-Tags into HTML files and use these as templates. As PHP already is a perfect and powerfull template engine and there is no need to use crap things like "Smarty" (what I call a "Template Template Engine Engine"). By simply including() the Templates into PHP all variables are expanded.

For that reason, I use to put all procedural and functional coding into *.php files, and all my templates are stored in *.html.

[sari42]

ok for templating,
but the OP asked explicitly for a "redirect" to a new page, maybe he needs to have "b.html" appearing in the browser location line?

>there is no need to use crap things like "Smarty"
full ack ;)