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m221

Hello,

I'm new to PHP. I was searching for a solution on the internet already but didn't find anything for my problem.
I have a small list with links/bookmarks to external websites. I don't wan to link them directly. I want to create a redirect page.

A) My links are shown like that:
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<li>http://www.mydomain.com/redirect.php?URL=http://www.externalsite.com</li>
<li>http://www.mydomain.com/redirect.php?URL=http://www.externalsite2.com</li>
<li>http://www.mydomain.com/redirect.php?URL=http://www.externalsite3.com</li>
etc.

B) My redirect.php file contains:
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<?php
    if (isset ($_GET['URL']) && preg_match ('/^http:\/\/.+/i', $_GET['URL']))
        header ("Location: " . $_GET['URL']);
    else
        // Alert if redirection failed.
        echo "Redirection failed!";
?>

C) If I click on the link shown above the following error message appears:
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /path_to_my_domain/redirect.php on line 3

I already checked the syntax but didn't find any errors which causes the message from above.

Any suggestions to solve the problem? Or do I have to choose another solution for my redirect problem?

Thanks a lot,
Michael

synic

The superglobal variable $_GET is only used to collect information from a form that is sent with method="get"

So if you you just a URL inside <li> tags and then attempt to grab that, it won't work.

synic

Maybe try something kind of like this...

Your HTML form:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN\"
	\"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd\">

<html lang=\"en\">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">
	<title>Redirect Example</title>
</head>
<body>
	<p>Where would you like to go?</p>
	<form action=\"redirect.php\" method=\"get\" accept-charset=\"utf-8\">
		<select name=\"url\" id=\"url\">
			<option value=\"www.google.com\">Google</option>
			<option value=\"www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo!</option>
			<option value=\"www.asdf.com\">Asdf</option>
		</select>
		<p><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" /></p>
	</form>
</body>
</html>

Your redirect.php page


<?php

if(isset($_GET['url'])) {
	header(\"Location: http://\".$_GET['url']);
}
else {
	print 'Error redirecting!';
}

?>

m221

Thanks a lot for reply!

The problem I do have is, I have to put the links in a list (<li>). I can't collect them in a pulldown menu.
Is there another solution for redirecting pages?

M.

m221

I found a solution...

1. Create a page redirect.php:
<?php
$url = $_GET['url'];
header("Location: $url");
?>

2. Create a robots.txt file and write:
Disallow: /redirect.php?*

3.
In the page where you list all of the links you, write the following code:
<li>http://www.yourownpage.com/redirect.php?url=http://www.externallink1.com</li>
<li>http://www.yourownpage.com/redirect.php?url=http://www.externallink2.com</li>
<li>http://www.yourownpage.com/redirect.php?url=http://www.externallink3.com</li>

4. That's all!

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