Redirect

[Anon]

I need to redirect users to a page after a specified period of time using "header". Does anyone know how to do this?

[[deleted]]

header doesn't let you do this, search the forums for meta-refresh instead.

[alcapone]

well actually, vincent, you right header doesn't let you to set time period before activating. Yet why don't steve put some while loop right before header and get his pause.

cheers,
AlCapone

[Anon]

Add a line into your page such as:

print("<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; url=default.php'>");

Change the zero to whatever time you need e.g 10 = 10 seconds

You can use this instead of the header() function on any page where you need a redirect as well.

Hope this helps

Jon Bertsch

[[deleted]]

He doesn't do that because the header must be the first thing that is sent in an HTML page, so if he put a delay before sendingthe header, the client would just see and empty page for as long as the delay takes, which doesn't make much sense does it? :-)