php redirect based on url variable - php

Question

I want to create a URL redirect based on a URL variable.
so, if student%20gender (student gender) is male then go to www.one.com, if female, go to www.two.com.
couldn't figure this one out yet. any help?

Answer 1

Question could use a little bit of a better explanation. Do you mean that someone is going to
http://www.yoursite.com/yourscript.php?student%20gender=male and you want them to be redirected to http://www.one.com?
If this is the case, PHP has a built in variable known as $_GET which stores the values listed after a ? in a URL. So in the above example, we'd see:
$_GET['student gender'] = male;
You can use this to access any number of parameters separated by &
So the URL http://www.site.com/index.php?val1=a&val2=b&val3=c would give us:
$_GET['val1'] = a;
$_GET['val2'] = b;
$_GET['val3'] = c;
After this, to do a redirect in PHP the easiest way is to send a Location: header. This is done like so:
<?php
header("Location: www.newsite.com");
?>
Combining this with our $_GET variable and some simple logic:
<?php
if($_GET['student gender'] == 'male'){
header("Location: www.one.com");
die();
} else {
header("Location: www.two.com");
die();
}
?>

Answer 2

$var = $_GET['yourvar'];
if($var == 'one'){
header("Location: http://www.one.com/");
}else if ($var == 'two'){
header("Location: http://www.two.com/");
}
then do http://www.yoururl.com?yourvar=one

Answer 3

You also have to make sure you look at the security aspects here, the best way yo accomplish this is
$gender = isset($_REQUEST['gender']) ? $_REQUEST['gender'] : false;
switch($gender)
{
default: //The default action
//Send back to the gender select form
break;
case 'male':
//Send to male site!
break;
case 'female':
//Send to female site!
break;
}
This should be sufficient, but please never use $_X['?'] in functions that execute either shell or database queries without sanitation.
Note: _X being (GET,POST,REQUEST,FILES)