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Question

I am running an argument based on urls to determine whether a user can access that area or not of the site. Is there a better way to instead of listing our every url just say anything after / cant be access. Here is my code it will better explain the problem:

if( $siteUrl == '/shop-portal/' && $userRole == 'customer'){
    header('Location: http://mywebsite.co.uk/');
} elseif( $siteUrl == '/product-category/...' && $userRole == 'customer'){
    header('Location: http://mywebsite.co.uk/');
}

so where I have /product-category/ isa there a way instead of writing out '/product-category/category1 etc etc every time can I just create one argument? Like anything after '/product-category/...' gets redirected?

Answer 1

I figured it out, here if any one else needs to see it:

if(strpos($siteUrl, 'shop-portal') !== false && $userRole == 'customer'){
    header('Location: http://mywebsite.co.uk/');
} elseif(strpos($siteUrl, 'product-category') !== false && $userRole == 'customer'){
    header('Location: http://mywebsite.co.uk/');
}

I changed up the query to check if the string exists in the url!