Question : login form in ajax, want to redirect the user to another page after sucessful login

I am making a login form using ajax. it ia almost complted. please see my function updatepage() here in this page i want to redirect the user to another page that is menu.php if the password entered is rigth otherwise alert message is shown

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form.php
 




 


 



Login


User Name:



Password:







 



 
login.php
 
Open("DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=c:\\wamp\\www\\ta\\2\\custom.mdb");
 
        $query="select count(*) As RecCount from login where username='$username' and password='$password'";
        $rs = $conn->Execute($query);
 
        while ( !$rs->EOF )
        {
                $fv = $rs->Fields("RecCount");
                $count = $fv->value;
                $rs->MoveNext();
        }
 
        if ( $count > 0 )
        {
                header("location: menu.php");
                exit;
        }
?>

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Answer : login form in ajax, want to redirect the user to another page after sucessful login

The problem is that the server does not see your login.php as a php page. So, instead of executing the code, it simply returns the entire page as-is.

There can be a few reasons for this:

short tags can be disabled. If this is true, you cannot start a php codeblock with
Otherwise, the server might not understand php at all. Does it run other scripts?