Pause and then go

[miles_rich]

I am trying to make a piece of code that will pause on a screen, which says something like "details have been added to the database" will wait for a few seconds for the user to read it, will then clear and then call a function to display the customer details. i have already made the function to add the details and to save the details its the bit in the middle i cant do. does any one have any ideas?

[immot]

You can do this with plain html

Add this inside the head-tag:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="2; url=some.html">

"2" above means seconds to wait.

[RedDragon]

i personaly use this function for it:

function redirect($url, $sec) {
	$msec = $sec*1000;
	print <<<EOT
	<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
	function redirect() {
	 window.location.replace("$url");
	}
	setTimeout("redirect();", $msec);
	</script>
EOT;
}

you can call the function with eg:

redirect("index.php", 1);

for redirecting to that page after 1 second