Timed Redirection of users

[furious5]

I have a confirmation page for users once they have updated some information, after displaying the confirmation message I want to be able to then redirect the users after a predefined amount of time.

Anyone got any ideas as to the best solution?

[axo]

have you tried meta refresh?

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; URL=your_refresh_uri">

there are many ways...
if you don't need the confirmation, use header("Location: ");

else you could use javascript window.replace() to redirect the users, in combination with setTimeOut() ...

[furious5]

I had thought about using Meta Refresh, but my problem is that I also do a check on the page to ensure that the user has specific rights to be able to edit particular items.

By using a meta refresh at the top of the page I would only get a chance to flash up the message and the user would be redirected.

Unless I wrote a seperate HTML properties for each of the actions contained within the PHP