Joomla setRedirect doesn't work - redirect

Question

I have a simple Joomla controller, but I can't redirect anything.
According to the documentation:
class MyController extends MyBaseController {
function import() {
$link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_foo&ctrl=bar');
$this->setRedirect($link);
}
}
//The url contains & html escaped character instead of "&"
This should work, but I get a malformed URL. Is there something I'm missing here? Why is Joomla converting all the "&" characters into &'s? How am I suppose to use setRedirect?
Thank you

Answer 1

Alright, I fixed it. So if anyone needs it:
instead of
$link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_foo&ctrl=bar');
$this->setRedirect($link);
use
$link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_foo&ctrl=bar',false);
$this->setRedirect($link);
to make it work.

Answer 2

Glad you found your answer, and by the way, the boolean parameter in JRoute::_() is by default true, and useful for xml compliance. What it does is that inside the static method, it uses the htmlspecialchars php function like this: $url = htmlspecialchars($url) to replace the & for xml.

Answer 3

Try this.
$mainframe = &JFactory::getApplication();
$mainframe->redirect(JURI::root()."index.php?option=com_foo&ctrl=bar","your custom message[optional]","message type[optional- warning,error,information etc]");

Answer 4

After inspecting the Joomla source you can quickly see why this is happening:
if (headers_sent())
{
echo "<script>document.location.href='" . htmlspecialchars($url) . "';</script>\n";
}
else
{
... ... ...
The problem is that your page has probably already output some data (via echo or some other means).
In this situation, Joomla is programmed to use a simple javascript redirect. However, in this javascript redirect it has htmlspecialchars() applied to the URL.
A simple solution is to just not use Joomlas function and directly write the javascript in a way that makes more sense:
echo "<script>document.location.href='" . $url . "';</script>\n";
This works for me :)

Answer 5

/libraries/joomla/application/application.php
Find line 400
// If the headers have been sent, then we cannot send an additional location header
// so we will output a javascript redirect statement.
if (headers_sent())
{
echo "<script>document.location.href='" . htmlspecialchars($url) . "';</script>\n";
}
replace to
// If the headers have been sent, then we cannot send an additional location header
// so we will output a javascript redirect statement.
if (headers_sent())
{
echo "<script>document.location.href='" . $url . "';</script>\n";
}
This works!