PHP JSON redirect - php

Question

I have a registration form,i want to redirect the user after register success (200) response to "location" => "home.php" or display errors on 400 (bad request) via json
I only know few basics of php so how should this look like
--> register.php ?
Combined with the examples below?
// make sure nothing is echo'd or otherwise sent to the
// output buffer at this stage
$errors = []; // collect errors in here
// do whatever you need to do with the $_POST / $_FILES data...
// capturing errors example...
if ($_POST['cpassword'] != $_POST['password']) {
$errors[] = "Passwords do not match!";
}
// use content negotiation to determine response type
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'] === "application/json") {
if (count($errors)) {
header("Content-type: application/problem+json");
http_response_code(400);
exit(json_encode([
"message" => "Invalid form data or something",
"errors" => $errors
]));
}
header("Content-type: application/json");
exit(json_encode(["location" => "home.php"]));
}
// just a normal request, respond with redirects or HTML
// ...
foreach ($errors as $error) : ?>
<div class="error"><?= $error ?></div>
<?php endforeach;
The client can navigate to home on success or display error information otherwise
document.querySelector(".register form").addEventListener("submit", async (e) => {
e.preventDefault()
const form = e.target
const body = new FormData(form)
// fetch is much easier to use than XHR
const res = await fetch(form.action, {
method: "POST",
headers: {
accept: "application/json", // let PHP know what type of response we want
},
body
})
const data = await res.json()
if (res.ok) {
location.href = data.location
} else if (res.status === 400) {
document.querySelector('.msg').textContent = data.message
// also do something with data.errors maybe
}
})
Please understand that im new and i have trouble resolving this,
a complete php answer would help & mark as resolved

Answer 1

You have no ok element in the JSON when it contains the redirect location. So change
exit(json_encode(["location" => "home.php"]));
to
exit(json_encode(["ok" => true, "location" => "home.php"]));