Is there a wait, or timer kind of function?

Namadoor

I have been searching, but so far I have been unsucsessful of finding one. What I want is a function, that will hold the script for a bit before letting it continue. I want it for things like "You are being redirected in 5 seconds" of "Your download will start in 5 seconds" and stuff like that.

Is there a function or a way I can do this fairly easily?

Thanks for the help.

intenz

Yup...

sleep();

Namadoor

Thank you! 🙂

sarahk

Be really careful with that though. You may be better to use meta refresh in the browser with your download file as the new url.

You can also use javascript to redirect to a new url after a timer delay.

Some browsers I gather won't show the page until it's all been loaded so your sleep will just look like a poorly performing site.

The you are being redirected in 5 seconds is best done with the meta refresh unless you are actually stalling the user while you do some complicated processing. In that case load up the page and then call the page which does the processing (passing any user variables it needs). By the time it's done the user will think the redirect has happened.

Namadoor

The problem is, I don't know any JavaScript... 🙁

Also, I got a good tip to put a 1 second sleep after a login program. This may not seem like much time to the person logging in, but to a hacker using brute force, it can be quite frusterating.

So what would the JavaScript code look like?

plapeyre

header("Refresh: 5; url=www.website.com/file.zip");

WDPEjoe

Javascript (5 second delay)

setTimeout("myFunc", 5000);
function myFunc() { window.location.href = "http://new.url.com/file/download.zip"; }