1.
i have a question about using header("Location: filename.html"); in php

with my present code i have a few echo statements followed by header("Location: filename.html"); because i have echo

statements before header("Location: filename.html"); i am getting an error that headers have already been sent. i cannot

remove the echo statements as they are doing an important task. based on this situation i can use echo followed by the html

code for the filename in filename.html if i do this the code will run into a few 100's of lines and due to this i would like

to use header("Location: filename.html");

i have tried the following code and it works =

echo " <form name='errorpage' action='error.php' method='post'> </form>       
       <script type='text/javascript' language='javascript'> document.errorpage.submit(); </script> ";
however if javascript is turned off this redirection will not work.

could you please suggest if there is an alternative to using echo statement first followed by
header("Location: filename.html");

2.
i am using the following php validation for forms which is not working very well

a)
$specialcharacters = '#^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$#';
with this code for a name if i type "first name" with a space it is considering the space and treating as a special character

however it should validate for letters and numbers only. how can i write '/^[a-zA-Z]+$/'; to ignore spaces


b)
$firstnamecheck = '/^[a-zA-Z]+$/';
with this code if i type for example "first name" as per the error is states that the string needs to contain letters. though

i typed letters because of the space it is not treating as letters. how can i rewrite this '/^[a-zA-Z]+$/';

please advice.

thanks.

Hi!

For the first situation I would advice you to use fopen() function:




for the second problem:

a. Try this:

$specialcharacters = '#^([a-zA-Z0-9]+[\040]*[a-zA-Z0-9]*)$#'

b. did not understand what you meant.


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Not sure what kind of important information needs to *not* be displayed before you redirect the user to another page through echo statements.

typically you want to redirect a user based on a case scenario:

if ($activity == "passed the scenario") {
     // send them on their way with the redirect.
} else {
    // echo the statements they should see instead.
}


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$specialcharacters = '#^([a-zA-Z0-9\s]+)$#';

\s for space.

So it looks for letters numbers and spaces. Anything else is ignored.

$firstnamecheck = '/^[a-zA-Z\s]+$/';

Same.


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