header location with session username

Question

This is my webpage headers :

<?php 

    header("Location: http://sreyas.org.in/main/index.php?user=<?php echo    
    $_SESSION['username']; ?>"); exit;
    header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
    header('Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT');
    header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, 
    post-check=0, pre-check=0'); // HTTP 1.1.
    header('Pragma: no-cache'); // HTTP 1.0.
    header('Expires: 0');
   ?>

But all I can see in my webpage is the following error :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '' (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE), expecting identifier (T_STRING) or variable (T_VARIABLE) or number (T_NUM_STRING) in C:\wamp\www\sreyas\main\index.php on line 5

What can i do?

header("Location: http://sreyas.org.in/main/index.php?user".$_SESSION['username']"); — javaDeveloper, Sep 26 '16 at 07:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '16 at 07:24

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header() function is already inside php tags. You don't have to double them. So try this:

header("Location: http://sreyas.org.in/main/index.php?user=".$_SESSION['username']);

answered Sep 26 '16 at 07:24

Boshentz

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sorry this is not working – manognatha Sep 26 '16 at 07:43
@manognatha You'll have to be more specific what that means, because *this is the right answer.* – deceze Sep 26 '16 at 07:50
@manognatha are you sure, that $_SESSION['username'] is populated? did you add session_start(); before the code you showed us? – Boshentz Sep 26 '16 at 07:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '16 at 08:15

why again start php in

<?php
    header("Location: http://sreyas.org.in/main/index.php?user=<?php echo    
    $_SESSION['username']; ?>"); 
?>

simply use

<?php
$name=$_SESSION['username'];
header("Location: http://sreyas.org.in/main/index.php?user=".$name);
?>

header location with session username

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