Summary of existing answers plus my own two cents:
1. Basic answer
You can use the header()
function to send a new HTTP header, but this must be sent to the browser before any HTML or text (so before the <!DOCTYPE ...>
declaration, for example).
header('Location: '.$newURL);
2. Important details
die() or exit()
header("Location: http://example.com/myOtherPage.php");
die();
Why you should use die()
or exit()
: The Daily WTF
Absolute or relative URL
Since June 2014 both absolute and relative URLs can be used. See RFC 7231 which had replaced the old RFC 2616, where only absolute URLs were allowed.
Status Codes
PHP's "Location"-header still uses the HTTP 302-redirect code, this is a "temporary" redirect and may not be the one you should use. You should consider either 301 (permanent redirect) or 303 (other).
Note: W3C mentions that the 303-header is incompatible with "many pre-HTTP/1.1 user agents. Currently used browsers are all HTTP/1.1 user agents. This is not true for many other user agents like spiders and robots.
3. Documentation
HTTP Headers and the header()
function in PHP
4. Alternatives
You may use the alternative method of http_redirect($url);
which needs the PECL package pecl to be installed.
5. Helper Functions
This function doesn't incorporate the 303 status code:
function Redirect($url, $permanent = false)
{
header('Location: ' . $url, true, $permanent ? 301 : 302);
exit();
}
Redirect('http://example.com/', false);
This is more flexible:
function redirect($url, $statusCode = 303)
{
header('Location: ' . $url, true, $statusCode);
die();
}
6. Workaround
As mentioned header()
redirects only work before anything is written out. They usually fail if invoked inmidst HTML output. Then you might use a HTML header workaround (not very professional!) like:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=finalpage.html">
Or a JavaScript redirect even.
window.location.replace("http://example.com/");
2019 Update
Starting from PHP 7.3, there is a new built in function called array_key_first()
which will retrieve the first key from the given array without resetting the internal pointer. Check out the documentation for more info.
You can use reset
and key
:
reset($array);
$first_key = key($array);
It's essentially the same as your initial code, but with a little less overhead, and it's more obvious what is happening.
Just remember to call reset
, or you may get any of the keys in the array. You can also use end
instead of reset
to get the last key.
If you wanted the key to get the first value, reset
actually returns it:
$first_value = reset($array);
There is one special case to watch out for though (so check the length of the array first):
$arr1 = array(false);
$arr2 = array();
var_dump(reset($arr1) === reset($arr2)); // bool(true)
Best Answer
Try this for range of cells:
or single cell
hope that helps