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PHP Using Cookies and JWTs for Secure Authentication Cookies Working with Cookies

Hannah Lee
Hannah Lee
80,187 Points

Redirecting after appending some new words in the url in php

Please please help me with this.. I want to redirect to /courses page

cookies.php
<?php
require __DIR__ .'/vendor/autoload.php';

// create cookie
use \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie;
$cookie = new Cookie('teacher', 'Alena');

header("Location: /cookies.php/courses");
exit();
redirect.php
<?php

function redirect($path, \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie $cookie = null)
{
    $response = \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response::create(
        null, 
        \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response::HTTP_FOUND, 
        ['Location' => $path]
    );
    if(key_exists('cookies', $extra)){

             $response->headers->setCookie($cookie); 

     }     
    $response->send();
}

1 Answer

Alena Holligan
STAFF
Alena Holligan
Treehouse Teacher

You'll want to use the "redirect" function from redirect.php instead of the "header" function. The autoload file is already including that, so you just need to call the function