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PHP: Header

I just saw some guy online railing at Smarty and ajax for ages, and crowing that everyone who writes a blog is a rookie while the real experts stay hidden. Sigh — well then, this rookie will keep writing up some things I sorted out today:
PHP header()
the function declaration: void header ( string string [, bool replace [, int http_response_code]])
The optional replace parameter indicates whether the header should replace a previous similar header, or add a second header of the same type. By default it will replace(true);
RFC2616 documents all the related status information. As for the status codes, here's a rough summary:
* 1xx: Informational - Request received, continuing process
  * 2xx: Success - The action was successfully received, understood,
  and accepted
  * 3xx: Redirection - Further action must be taken in order to
  complete the request
  * 4xx: Client Error - The request contains bad syntax or cannot be
  fulfilled
  * 5xx: Server Error - The server failed to fulfill an apparently
  valid request
       | "100" ; Continue
       | "101" ; Switching Protocols
       | "200" ; OK
       | "201" ; Created
       | "202" ; Accepted
       | "203" ; Non-Authoritative Information
       | "204" ; No Content
       | "205" ; Reset Content
       | "206" ; Partial Content
       | "300" ; Multiple Choices
       | "301" ; Moved Permanently
       | "302" ; Moved Temporarily
       | "303" ; See Other
       | "304" ; Not Modified
       | "305" ; Use Proxy
       | "400" ; Bad Request
       | "401" ; Unauthorized
       | "402" ; Payment Required
       | "403" ; Forbidden
       | "404" ; Not Found
       | "405" ; Method Not Allowed
       | "406" ; Not Acceptable
       | "407" ; Proxy Authentication Required
       | "408" ; Request Time-out
       | "409" ; Conflict
       | "410" ; Gone
       | "411" ; Length Required
       | "412" ; Precondition Failed
       | "413" ; Request Entity Too Large
       | "414" ; Request-URI Too Large
       | "415" ; Unsupported Media Type
       | "500" ; Internal Server Error
       | "501" ; Not Implemented
       | "502" ; Bad Gateway
       | "503" ; Service Unavailable
       | "504" ; Gateway Time-out
       | "505" ; HTTP Version not supported
So, a few examples:
header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found", true, 404);
header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8;");
header("Location:http://www.xxx.com");
RFC2616 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616

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