Open a PHP page with window.location in Javascript is not working

Question

How do I open a php page from javascript function ?

1. window.location = "http://www.google.com";
2. window.location.href = "http://www.google.com";
3. location.href = "http://www.google.com";

None of them is working.
Even put in php.ini

allow_url_fopen = on

What is wrong at my approach?

Answer 1

If you have this javascript embedded within <script> tags it should work:

<script type="text/javascript">
  window.location = "http://www.google.com";
</script>

However, you cannot cause a PHP script to be included within a page you are writing with thsi javascript function: It will only redirect the browser to google or whatever other page you have set in window.location. You can include a PHP script from within a PHP page using the PHP include() or require() functions:

<?php
  include('file.php');
?>

Answer 2

window.location = "http://www.google.com";

Should work..

I think your javascript code contain some error so it is not working.

Answer 3

So php.ini's line allow_url_fopen has nothing to do with this. It is to allow or not a url to be given to the fopen function of PHP.

Here what you want to do is to redirect a user to another page using window.location = '/page.php'.

Unless by open you meant getting loading inside the actual page, in this case have a look at the mdn documentation about XHR. And you should be using jQuery's load function.

Answer 4

window.location.href = "http://www.google.com";

That will only redirect the user to Google.

But you can't load a page in a JS variable, every browser have a "cross-domain" restriction (unless the page is on the same domain as you JS file & your visitor).