Posts tagged php

Using PHP to redirect to another page is a common task, especially when you are working with email forms. Fill the form out, process it, then redirect to a “thank you” page:

<?php
header( “Location: http://www.example.com” ) ;
exit;
?>

You can also use variables for the URL like so:

<?php
$destURL = “http://www.example.com”;
header( “Location: ” . $destURL ) ;
exit;
?>

NOTE: The code above has to be processed before any HTML headers, so it needs to be placed above ANY HTML code.

NOTE 2: Watch the code above, depending upon my current CSS in my current theme the single quotes or even double quote may change to fancy quotes which will need to be edited if you cut-n-paste the code.

MORE info available on PHP.net’s header manual page

For building sites that can more easily be moved from one server to another, and allows simpler updating of common information like email address and phone number of the client.

Here’s some PHP to generate paths: both server paths and domain paths good for use in all sorts of ways for include and require statements.

<?
// for INCLUDE statements – this is the local server path
$urlPATH = “http://” . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$srvPATH = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
include ($srvPATH.”/config-settings.php”);
?>

More later.

UPDATE: Better code. Creds for this updated code to my buddy Seth Furchgott who did the googling and grabbed the following from PHP.net, much better than what I originally posted below.

<?php

date_default_timezone_set(‘America/New_York’);
echo date(‘g:i A’);

?>

Documentation for timezones:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php (get time zones here by Continent…and Ocean)

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php (US timezones)

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OLD PHP TIME POSTS (newer PHP timezone post): After a comment from a visitor I re-checked my code, did some testing and added the echo statement with formatted time, and improved the comments about how to check for the correct value of $offset. Also, note I have not used this code for a year yet so I do not know if daylight savings has been taken into account.

PHP code to get time in YOUR timezone…

<?php

$mydatetime = time ();
$offset= 0; // offset in # of hours from desired location
// check the time displayed using $offset = 0 and adjust
// the offset accordingly
$mydatetime = $mydatetime + ($offset * 60 * 60);
echo date (“g:i A”, $mydatetime);

?>

Check the PHP Time manual page for formatting the time.

Comments/feedback are invited.