header("location:page.php") delay

hi,

i want to delay the

header("location:page.php");

PHP:

about 3 seconds. is this possible?

 

I'm not aware of being able to do it in php. Try echoing a javascript delayed redirect, that will work as its client side. Unless anyone knows if this can be done in php???

 

You can do it one of the following ways

• Use a javascript delay as mentioned above
• Use a meta refresh
• Use sleep(3); to delay the execution for 3 seconds

 

header('Refresh:3 ; URL=index.php');

PHP:

this delay for 3 seconds..
you can print something like:

print 'Redirecting...';
header('Refresh:3 ; URL=index.php');

PHP:

cheers

 

I find the meta much better than the header method, although essentially the same

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.example.com/yourpage.php" />

HTML:

which will refresh after 3 seconds. This is for those pages like the one where you log in to this forum, and it says thankyou for logging in