If someone comes to my website, and the url just equals
domain.com/site/index.php
or domain/site/
I want to be able to redirect them to
domain.com/site/index.php?action=showcat&catid=1
I need to know how to do that for the site I am making right now. Using PHPnews, it shows all news and posts on the front page, but I want it to only show a certain category when you visit the site, so that you dont see a clutter of posts from odd categories and such. I came up with this...
( I am still not that great at PHP, so bare with me )Code:
if ( $action == null ) {
header(location: index.php?action=showcat&catid=1);
}
the thing is, thats its got some work needs to be done...
Please help me with this, I need this done by Monday 
!
UPDATE:Just got done with a little research and programming and came up with this, but this wont work ethar...
Code:
<?php
$siteurl = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
if ( $siteurl == "/index.php" ) {
header("location: index.php?action=showcat&catid=1");
}
?>
It freaks out and I get the following error:
Code:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/clubfusi/public_html/index.php:4) in /home2/clubfusi/public_html/index.php on line 9
Can anyone help me ? I need this finished by tomorrow. I have everthing ready, except this. And once I get this done, then the project will be completed and both me and my client will be happy 
Its not quite working, I get the same header error. I need something that changes to index.php?action=showcat&catid=1 if the url is only index.php .
What about if(!isset($_GET['action']))?
You need to make sure that the redirect is before you do any echo()ing or print()ing to the page contents.
KermMartian wrote:
You need to make sure that the redirect is before you do any echo()ing or print()ing to the page contents.
Hence the reason it said "output already started on line whatever" lol - I really wish people would actually READ the error messages and GO to the line it says 
Kllrnohj wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
You need to make sure that the redirect is before you do any echo()ing or print()ing to the page contents.
Hence the reason it said "output already started on line whatever" 0x5 - I really wish people would actually READ the error messages and GO to the line it says 
Exactly - and I think I'm not the first person on the page to mention it. If nothing else, I saw elfprince mention this on SAX.
Why even bother with redirecting? If there's no action, just assume that action=showcat & catid=1
KermMartian wrote:
Kllrnohj wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
You need to make sure that the redirect is before you do any echo()ing or print()ing to the page contents.
Hence the reason it said "output already started on line whatever" 0x5 - I really wish people would actually READ the error messages and GO to the line it says
I did, however it's also important that he changes his redirect statement anyway since the one he had would have brought him to http:///index.php?act=showcat@catid=1 which wouldn't have gone over real well with his webbrowser 
KermMartian wrote:
Kllrnohj wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
You need to make sure that the redirect is before you do any echo()ing or print()ing to the page contents.
Hence the reason it said "output already started on line whatever" 0x5 - I really wish people would actually READ the error messages and GO to the line it says
I knew what the error was, I am not that stupid . The other problem was solving it with both functions working?
I fixed it before, but the problem was, the if statement was like it was'nt there. I found another way to do it. So it dfoes'nt matter anymore.
Ah, that makes sense. Well, glad you got it all straightened out, and the site looks great.
swivelgames wrote:
I knew what the error was, I am not that stupid
. The other problem was solving it with both functions working?
Thats a hard question to answer without seeing the whole thing, as neither snippet you posted outputted any text.
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