How to redirect to a site?

Anon

I want to redirect people to the site after 30 seconds..

and the site URL will base on what people's input thier userid.
For example: www.php.net/ex.php?user=userid

How can I code the PHP script?
Thanks

Anon

Dennis,

I think this should do the trick:

Mike

Anon

Make sure that tag is within the <head> tag of your HTML document -it will not work otherwise.

Anon

I did the same thing before, but phase error is out.

I think the problem is the symbol " ' and ;
affect the PHP code.

What can I do?

Anon

But please check it out..
I have added the <head> into the HTML tag.
However, phase error come out.

What is the trick?

Anon

Dennis,

Sorry the $userid variable needs to be enclosed by PHP tags like this:

When a user logs in the $userid variable is set. The META tag needs to go on the page after the user logs in.

Hope this makes sense!!

Mike

Anon

this will do it

(remember headers must be the first thing to print to a html file)

header(\"Location: www.php.net/ex.php?user=userid\");

Anon

Phil,

He wants to refresh the page after 30 seconds so this won't do!!

Mike

Anon

Allright man - I think you're a lil confused...

At the top of the PHP document, you begin with HTML tags, right?

Make them look like this:

<code>

I think you were attempting to put that head tag within your body - doesn't werk that way

ope this helps,
-=Lazzerous=-

Anon

Personally, this is how I would do it.

Have the people enter their username and pass on page1.php then upon a successful login put this before any HTML or headers:

header("Location: http://www.server.com/secure/for_your_eyes_only.php?userID=$good_username&password=$good_password");

This is now I normally do it.

Anon

Lazzerous,

Sorry mate but I think you're wrong. You can use the <META http-equiv...> anywhere in your pages (I have just done it).

Anyway back to the problem in hand, I wasn't trying to put the <META ..> tag in the <BODY> anyway!!!

What I was suggesting was:

eg.

****LOGIN PAGE****

****END OF LOGIN PAGE****

****newpage.php3****

<head>

</head>

****END OF newpage.php3****

Therefore when redirected www.php.net would take the variable $user which would be equal to the userid entered on the first page

Anon

Can none of you guys read the orginal request, Mike are you the only one alive here. You can't use header() because he wants to have it go after 30 sec. you must <meat refresh and you can't simpy put $username in the meta tag. How will the variable get parsed? Mike is theonly one who answered this one correctly!