Redirect to specified URL on PHP script completion?

Question

How can I get a PHP function go to a specific website when it is done running?

For example:

<?php
  //SOMETHING DONE
  GOTO(http://example.com/thankyou.php);
?>

I would really like the following...

<?php
  //SOMETHING DONE
  GOTO($url);
?>

I want to do something like this:

<?php
  //SOMETHING DONE THAT SETS $url
  header('Location: $url');  
?>

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/353803/redirect-to-specified-url-on-php-script-completion

Answer 1

<?
ob_start(); // ensures anything dumped out will be caught

// do stuff here
$url = 'http://example.com/thankyou.php'; // this can be set based on whatever

// clear out the output buffer
while (ob_get_status()) 
{
    ob_end_clean();
}

// no redirect
header( "Location: $url" );
?>