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jackgreat

Hello ,

I am using PHP to accept and form and user clicks it i validate it and then save it.

The problem is when user click on save a script is called and it does the processing and then transfers to another page.

Now if i want to display a message like page saved and then want that automatically page gets transferred then error occurs that is headers already send. On the other hand if i do it without printing anything on the screen then its okay and goes to another page.

Basically if i dont print anything then it goes to next page automatically else it says headers already send error.

Thus i want to know how can a script which does a task then transfer to a page by first showing some text and waiting for few seconds then load another page.

Thanks,
JG

devinemke

Output Control Functions

BuzFortuna

Just put the header in before you echo the text. Headers ONLY work before any text is sent to the user, so do something like this:

<?php
header ("Refresh: 5; URL="newpage.php");
?>
<div>Your information has been saved and you will be redirected to the page in 5 seconds!</div>

Just make sure you don't output any text BEFORE you use the header. Hope this helped. 🙂

bradgrafelman

Originally posted by BuzFortuna
Just put the header in before you echo the text. Headers ONLY work before any text is sent to the user, so do something like this:

<?php
header ("Refresh: 5; URL="newpage.php");
?>
<div>Your information has been saved and you will be redirected to the page in 5 seconds!</div>

Just make sure you don't output any text BEFORE you use the header. Hope this helped. 🙂

Note the error of unescaped quotes and a missing ending quote if you use the above solution. Correct code would resemble:

<?php
header ("Refresh: 5; URL=\"newpage.php\"");
?>

jackgreat

Thank you guys for your help. The header tag with refresh worked for me. (header ("Refresh: 3; URL="index.php");

At first i tried using output functions but they were kinda confusing.

Once again thanks...

Regards,
JG