PHP: If one clear member, redirect to user profile

Yes so i want to, in the search results, if there´s one that matches completly of what you have entered, then it should go to profil.php?id=$row[id]

I tried by doing t开发者_StackOverflow中文版his:

$full_name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["search"]);
$Matchy = $get["firstname"] . " " . $get["lastname"];
    if($full_name == $Matchy){
    echo "redirect me";
    }

Is this ok? It seems to work, but maybe there's a better solution for doing this?

And how do I redirect without using header, as it already begun at the top..?

Sure it'll work, just remember a few things.

This will make usernames (names) case sensitive, and someone will have to only enter 1 space, they'll have to remember to do firstname lastname, not lastname firstname like some might assume. Depending on how you are retrieving $get it could be faster and more efficient to do a direct DB look up.

Edit: to make them not sensitive, you can lowercase them, either store them lowered cased or just lower case for comparason. i.e

$full_name = strtolower(mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["search"]));
$Matchy = strtolower($get["firstname"]) . " " . strtolower($get["lastname"]);

$full_name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["search"]);
$Matchy = $get["firstname"] . " " . $get["lastname"];
    if($full_name == $Matchy){
    echo "redirect me";
    }

This is an another way to do it: (and taking Viper's comment in consideration)

1. concatenate strings
2. make them common case (lower / upper)
3. remove spaces in them. <= This is important, where end user may include extra spaces during start / end of between names.. EG: instead of "Tom Cruise" I may write in " Tom Cruise " , trim will remove spaces from both ends, so , you can use that individually in the get[fname] and get[lname]

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$Matchy = trim(strtolower($get["firstname"])) . " " . trim(strtolower($get["lastname"]));


if(strtolower($full_name) == $Matchy){
    echo "redirect me";
 }