redirect url

**nikomou** · 04-05-2006, 07:43 PM

Hi,
I've set up a simple script to redirect to a page depending on what the &url= parameter is...

PHP Code:


<?php

$goto = $_GET['goto'];

?>

<html>

<head>

<title>Mobile Phone Deals</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="40;url=<?php echo ("$goto")?>">

</head>

<body>

</body>

<html>

the problem being, if the URL i am redirecting to, has a " & " in it, it doesnt work... (i'm using affiliate links, so sum URL could have more than one " & " in the URL...

**Twey** · 04-05-2006, 08:04 PM

Code:

<?php echo(htmlentities($goto)); ?>

**nikomou** · 04-05-2006, 09:25 PM

tha doesnt work Twey..
it just ignores anything after a question mark ? or a and sign &

the other problem is that there are more parametres that will be called..

e.g. /goto.php?1=this&2=that&goto=http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=php&meta=

**Twey** · 04-05-2006, 09:28 PM

Hm. The question mark should be fine, but the ampersand would usually cause trouble: they're meant to be escaped as &. Can you show me the output of your script?

**nikomou** · 04-05-2006, 09:36 PM

yeah, was just gunna edit to say that theres no problem with the question mark...
if goto is this url:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=php&meta=

i get this...

HTML Code:

<html> 
<head> 
<title>Redirect</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb"> 
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4;url=http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en"> 
</head> 
<body> 
</body> 
<html>

**Twey** · 04-05-2006, 09:44 PM

Aaaaaah. Of course you do. You need to escape the ampersands as %26 when you first feed them into the script.
redir.php?goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Eco%2Euk%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dphp%26meta%3D
If you call the urlencode() function on the string in PHP, it'll perform this replacement for you.
I suggest you use an HTTP redirect rather than a meta refresh, though.

**nikomou** · 04-05-2006, 10:06 PM

thought i would of had to do that...

could you give me an example of a HTTP redirect script/code?!?

Cheers.

**Twey** · 04-05-2006, 10:59 PM

Code:

<?php header("Location: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=php&meta="); ?>

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