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Redirection

Controllers can facilitate redirecting users from one place to another using HTTP redirection using the Location HTTP header.

namespace App\Control;

use SilverStripe\Control\Controller;
use SilverStripe\Control\HTTPResponse;

class MyController extends Controller
{
    // ...

    public function someMethod(): HTTPResponse
    {
        // redirect to the "goherenow" action on this controller, i.e. on the controller for the "contact-us" page this
        // will redirect to /contact-us/goherenow/
        return $this->redirect($this->Link('goherenow'));

        // redirect to the URL on yoursite.com/goherenow/ (note the leading slash)
        return $this->redirect('/goherenow');

        // redirect to https://google.com
        return $this->redirect('https://google.com');

        // go back to the previous page
        return $this->redirectBack();
    }
}

Status codes

The redirect() method takes an optional HTTP status code, either 301 for permanent redirects, or 302 for temporary redirects (default).

// go back to the homepage, don't cache that this page has moved
$this->redirect('/', 302);

Redirection in URL handling

Controllers can specify redirections in the $url_handlers property rather than defining a method by using the '~' operator.

namespace App\Control;

use SilverStripe\Control\Controller;

class MyController extends Controller
{
    private static $url_handlers = [
        'players/john' => '~>coach',
    ];
    // ...
}

For more information on $url_handlers see the Routing documentation.

API documentation

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