I have example.com
. If the user is logged in, it should load automatically example.com/option-X
where X is a predefined choice of the user.
So, I do this at the top of index.php
:
header("Location: /option-X");
But, if the user is not logged in, I just choose automatically the first option like this:
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: /option-a");
So, I have two questions regarding the implications of doing so:
example.com/option-a
- does it affect them that it has a 301 header?The effect of the 301 would be that the search engines will index /option-a
instead of /option-x
. Which is probably a good thing since /option-x
is not reachable for the search index and thus could have a positive effect on the index. Only if you use this wisely
After the redirect put exit();
to stop the rest of the script to execute
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: /option-a");
exit();