Alternative to drupal_goto()

beautifulmind - February 9, 2008 - 06:55

Is there any alternative to drupal_goto() other than form['#redirect'] for redirecting users?

Thank you.

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why do you want an alternative?

Christefano - February 9, 2008 - 09:15

If this isn't for a module, you can always send users off somewhere by giving them something like header("Location: $url"); where $url is a URL that's been sanitized.

If you are writing a module you can copy drupal_goto() into the module and change the "drupal" part to the name of your module. Take a look at the current dev versions of Coral Defender or Path Redirect module for an example.

As per (our) coding standard...

beautifulmind - February 9, 2008 - 10:30

I am writing a module and I have studied both the modules you suggested. Thank you for your suggestion.
As per our coding standard, we don't allowed to use drupal_goto(), but now the we are allowed to user it.
Thank you very much for your warm response.

Beautiful mind
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Form redirects?

Heine - February 9, 2008 - 10:44

Is this by any chance about redirecting after form submission? Only then does the coding standard about not using drupal_goto make sense.

Simply return the desired path as a string from your submit handler. If you need to redirect to a more complex url (with query/fragment), return an array with $path, $query, $fragment.

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Not form redirects...

beautifulmind - February 9, 2008 - 10:51

Let me explain, by our coding standard I meant that our organization coding standard.
Its not form redirects but concerns with redirecting from some other custom functions in custom modules.

Thank you for your reply.