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		frankus on Oct 20, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How best to navigate to a PHP page after a form su... Often you'll have to explicitly call exit() after a call to header("Location: index.html?page=privacy"). IIRC it is version- and configuration-dependent. But a redirect is pretty clearly the right way to do this. When you get ready to do SEO-friendly URLs, take a look at mod_rewrite.

jsteele on Oct 22, 2009 [–]

Thanks for the reply. How does an exit() after header() help? It still causes a discontinuity in an IDE.

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