What header code are you using?
Something like:

header('Location: /some_page.php');

Or something different?

yes i use

header('Location: create_new_customer.php');

thanasisdev, welcome to WebmasterWorld!
I believe that your solution to make it desktop like
should be using ajax request.
it will serve any request from the same original page.

I am assuming that you are using localhost as the host, or have you set up a specific ip address for your desktop application to use?

I am also making the assumption that you are using the traditional client server model, albeit you are running both on the same machine.

From the manual:

Note: HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute URI as argument to » Location: including the scheme, hostname and absolute path, but some clients accept relative URIs. You can usually use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and dirname() to make an absolute URI from a relative one yourself:

<?php
/* Redirect to a different page in the current directory that was requested */
$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$uri = rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\\');
$extra = 'mypage.php';
header("Location: http://$host$uri/$extra");
exit;
?>

So it may be that there is a confusion as to exactly what page you are trying to connect to.
Try the full address, or try using an absolute address--rather than your relative one--to see if you get a different result.

As if you can do it through ajax then you should be able to do it through the more traditional approach...seeing as they are both http requests.

Hey there

Thanks all for your replies.

I'm using a VMWARE virtual machine for the application.
My local machine listens on 0.3 and the VMWARE (the application) listens on 0.11.

I tried supplying the full path as parameter to the header but it does not work. It still redirects me to the page that i want but it opens the page with a new tab.

Is there a way to achieve this kind of functionality by using the header() or should i look somewhere else ? (ajax request maybe?)

Best Regards,
A.Emmanouilidis

Hello there,

I really don't understand the nature of this problem.
I just now checked out my code and i see i use header() successfully in another method on the Process.php file that i have. It redirects the user to a page but in the same window.

Any suggestions ?

I dont understand why your application is opening a new tab on this occasion, especially if it is working correctly in another place.

While ajax would sort your problem, it is not really a solution. As it is just covering up the issue.

There is something different about this use of header. Exactly what that is I cant say. You need to look through all of your code to try and find that difference.

Is everything done over http or https, are you mixing protocols?

I would expect an anchor with the target="_blank" attribute to open a link in another tab/window, however these dont involve the header function. So I am obviously missing something.

You may need to post some larger chunks of code. Maybe both those where it is working correctly and where it isnt.

I have a form which submits data to a process.php. ....

I would expect an anchor with the target="_blank" attribute to open a link in another tab/window...

Or

target="anything"

on your FORM element?

As far as I'm aware there is nothing that can be sent back from the server (ie. from PHP) that could trigger the browser to open a new tab / window. This sounds like a client-side issue... either an HTML target attribute or possibly JavaScript. Try disabling JS (easy to do in FF) to rule out the JS.

Hi

I just can't figure out a solution. I have tried almost everything that i could think.

I tested the page in Internet Explorer and it opens the page in a new window!

I disabled the javascript in the Firefox and same behaviour happens ! The page is loaded in a new tab !

Really, i have run out of ideas. Help into this matter will be highly appreciated !

hi there

Just did it. Thank you soooo much. I spend almost 24 full hours for this ! :-) The problem was a target="_blank" on my code. I'm not still finished with my problems, but i will post my other problem in a new post ;-)

best regards,
thanasisdev