How do I redirect with Javascript?

Jonny

How do I redirect to a page from another page with Javascript?

Petteri

To redirect to another page, you can use:

window.location = "http://www.yoururl.com";

Jonny

Thanks, but how do I implement this under certain conditions only? like if I'm logged in I will redirect to page A otherwise page B (I'm using PHP server side)

Petteri

That depends on what condition you choose, let's assume that it is a session variable named isLoggdIn for simplicity.

if (isset($_SESSION['isLoggedIn']) && $_SESSION['isLoggedIn'] == true)
        echo '<script>window.location = "http://www.yoururl.com/page_A.php";</script>';
else
        echo '<script>window.location = "http://www.yoururl.com/page_B.php";</script>';

Remember to do this check on all your restricted pages so that people can't access the logged in section without being logged in.

TheLaughingDuck

PHP is the key here, btw you could use .htaccess and block access from anywhere directly in your webserver by storing your restricted files in a subfolder and load them from there. Otherwise you would have to execute a PHP script each time just to check and that may cause a heavy load on your server.

Jonny

Thanks guys 😄