I am writing a web page, which searches in a table and displays the data if all is well and a message if not. The code looks roughly like this:
<?php session_start(); ?>
<html><head> ..... </head>
<body>
<form action="search.php" method="post"> {parameters for searching} </form
<?php include_once('display_results.php');?>
<?php if (isset($_SESSION['message'])) {
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">alert(\"".$_SESSION['message']."\")</script>";
unset($_SESSION['message']);
} ?>
</body>
</html>
the display_results.php looks like this:
<?php
//query table get results build output and if there was an error call do_exit($message)
function do_exit($message) {
//unset objects close connections and misc finalizations
$_SESSION['message'] = $message;
die();
}
My problem is that when die() is called, it seems that not only does the display_results.php script stops, but also the original php file, so even though the message is set, there is no alert. On the other hand, if I remove the die() statement, and after each do_exit() I execute return this works correctly.
Now this isn't a huge problem, I can just make it so that I call return after each do_exit() but I was wandering if there was a way to exit the script but continue with the execution of the original php file
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
