The easiest solution is to create the failure variable as a session variable. -Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Matt Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 July 2001 04:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: HTTP header question. I don't know how to solve your problem, but I do know what you are talking about.. People just aren't understanding. All he wants is if you go to "login.php" in your browser, the Location will show: http://his.website.com/rams/login.php Okay? Got it? NOW....... If you attempt to log in and give the form an INCORRECT login, he wants to SOMEHOW (and currently trying by headers) wants the location to show this: http://his.website.com/rams/login.php AND NOT: http://his.website.com/rams/login.php?failure=true Is that hard to understand? I hope I have helped to some degree. -- ----------------------- -- M&D Creations - Matt Rogers - Web Design Dept. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ben Bleything" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 000001c11891$447271c0$0201a8c0@allegro">news:000001c11891$447271c0$0201a8c0@allegro... > Hey all, > > I want to craft a header such that it seems to the page that data has > been POST'ed to it... Here's the situation: I'm writing a login page to > my application, and if they log in incorrectly, I want the page to > redisplay, but I want it to throw out an error message. I'm currently > doing it by > > header("Location: login.php?failure=true"); > > but I'd like to make it transparent. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ben > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]