带消息的PHP重定向

Question

I have a controller which displays and processes postback for a form. The controller redirects to another page once the form has been successfully validated and the data has been processed accordingly.

Redirection is completed with something to the equivalent of:

@header('Status: 303 See other');
@header('Location: ' . $redirect_uri);

What is the most reliable way for the controller to provide a message that is to be displayed on the new page? Is there a standard practice for this?

i.e. "Your account was successfully updated."

My thought is to place dynamically generated messages into a session variable, and to indicate a predefined message with a unique ID in the URI itself:

$_SESSION['previous-response-msg'] = "Account of '$user_name' was updated.";

or

$redirect_uri = 'http://example.com/other-page?msg=42';

Answer 1

One time message in session variable has worked fine for me. I don't see much of a problem here, especially for status type messages.

If you are using a framework, its quite possible this is built in. .