Run script after a redirect

[mooash]

Can anyone help?

I am trying to run a programme which I want to redirect and then run the rest of the script afterwards.

I am using the following:

header("Location: $redirect");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Connection: close");
for($i = 0; $i < 40000; $i++)
{
echo ' ';
}
flush();

I have the loop in because otherwise the flush doesn't work and it waits until the script finishes (which is too long).

However, if i have the loop in I set a cookie further down which does not work. If I take the loop out the cookie sets but it takes too long!!

Can anyone help, I am stumped 🙁

[Drakla]

What you're doing basically breaks the rules of doing the redirect - have a look amongst [man]register_shutdown_function[/man] for a solution, and do a few experiments.

EDIT - oh, actually that doesn't work any more, not since php 4.1.

I'm not saying it'll work, but you could try

ignore_user_abort(true);
header('location: wherever');
sleep(1);
... do your code here

That's an awful solution, and I actually do a similar thing to this by triggering another script on the server. If you can exec php then do that, as it's a real solution to it.