Timed redirection with PHP?

[AcousticJames]

Hey all, I'm wondering if there is a way to redirect a user to another page after so many seconds. I tried using META redirection, but all it does is refresh the page, not send the user to the page I set as the URL in the meta tag.

I know about the header() function, but I looked at the documentation and there doesn't seem to be a way to set, say, a 5 second interval before redirecting. The URL is actually being generated dynamically so I can put information from a database into the URL. Kinda like this:

printf("<a href=\"reviews.php?mode=view&id=%d\"", dbRow['id']);

I'm sure you get the idea. I need to dynamically create the URL, then redirect the user to that page after 5 seconds. Any tips? I did a search on the forum, but I'm not sure if I used the right terms, so if this has been answered before, please provide a link.

Also, I'm notorious for missing things right in front of my face. Feel free to make me feel sufficiently stupid for missing something that should be self-evident. I'm used to it. :p

Thanks in advance.

James

[rikmoncur]

<?php 
if(isset($Submit)){
$str = <<<EOT
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="2.0; URL=http://www.$name.com">    

EOT;
echo $str;
}
?>

<form name="form" method="post" action="<?php $PHP_SELF ?>">
<p>
<input type="text" name="name" value="ibm">
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</form>

---

I wrote the little script above as a test - basically it's just meta-refresh with the url replaced with a dynamically generated one:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="5.0; URL=<?php echo $url; ?>">

[AcousticJames]

Got it to work! Thanks, not sure what I was doing wrong before, probably had the META tag messed up somewhere. Looks like this:

<?php
$id = $_GET['id'];
?>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5.0; URL=<?php echo "reviews.php?mode=view&id=".$id.""; ?>">

Redirects exactly as intended. Thanks, man!

James

EDIT: Thread is resolved, for some reason, I don't see the link at the bottom of the page. Odd.