stall a redirect to a new page

[djwinder]

Hi all,

I have the below code which i think will work, im trying to redirect to index.php after calling my funcation but im currently getting the following error

"Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in C:\root2\logout.php on line 26" where line 26 is the line begining header.

any advice on how to resolve this or a better way of doing this would be really great.

<?php

session_start();
include ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. '/includes/functions.php');
user_logout();

require ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. '/includes/header.php'); ?>         

         <tr>
         <td width="780" colspan="4" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">	  

	 <br>
	 <br>
           <?PHP echo 'You have successfully logged out and will be redirected shortly'; ?> 

 <br>
     <br>
     <br>
     <br>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <?PHP
     require ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. '/includes/footer.php');  

sleep( '3' ); 

header("Location .$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. '/index.php'");


exit; 

?>

[leatherback]

sleep() takes an integer as input. you are sending a string. see if sleep(3); solves it

[djwinder]

Thanks for the responce, the error still remains the same i feel it is something to do with my use of quotes in the header line but i have tried everything i can think of as a possible solution

[leatherback]

oh shoop: location:ADDRESS

note the colon

[bradgrafelman]

Also not that this code won't work whether you fix the parse error or not.

You can't send HTTP headers after you've outputted data; HTTP headers are just that - headers that precede the content. Once you send data, the HTTP headers are sent and can't be modified.

Before you output any data, use [man]header/man to send a Refresh HTTP header (e.g. 'Refresh: 5;url=http://mysite.com').