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"Why doesn't a meta-refresh work in PHP with a variable for the URL?"

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Asked by FunWeb 21 months ago (

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This works:
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"10;url=";
echo "http://www.yahoo.com\" />";

but this doesn't:
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"10;url=";
echo "\"$pathdirectory\" />";

$pathdirectory = a fully functional URL. (???)

Viewing the source of the HTML generated by the PHP, the one with the variable looks perfect, just like the yahoo one, but a different, complete URL, but it never redirects. ???

So, why would a variable not work?

Again, the variable when viewing the sources looks perfect, example:
http://www.site.com/path1/file.php

Any ideas as to why it doesn't refresh/redirect?

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"Remove the extra quote in front of the URL..."

by NC on Feb 23 2008 (21 months ago)

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Your first example outputs a valid META tag:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://www.yahoo.com" />

Your second example outputs an invalid META tag:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url="[Your URL here]" />

(Note the unnecessary double quote in the middle of the content attribute.)

So what you need is to rewrite your code like this:

echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"10;url=$pathdirectory\" />";

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