Need Help Creating Delay Between Redirect.

Hey there everybody,

I'm new to PHP, but i have a mediocre knowledge. I am coding a simple login module to learn more of the functions etc. Its going very well, everything is set up just like i would want it, except for one thing.. I have messages on each page before they redirect.. Such as, "you didn't enter a password. please try again." but, you cannot read them for more than a half second, because the page changes too fast. I know i could use the sleep() function to make a delay between the pages, but it wasn't working out for me too well, and seemed to be useless. Does anyone else have ideas? Thanks.. And i know, you might say "search google" but i already have, and found absolutely nothing that worked..

Thanks again everyone!

 

It sounds like you're using a meta refresh to redirect, use something like this:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4;URL=redirectlocation.html"/>

Code (markup):

Where you change "4" to however many seconds you want to delay the redirect by.

 

<?php
header('refresh=5; URL=where.com');
?>

PHP:

change the 5 seconds to suit your need

 

Better to try:

header('Refresh: 5; url=http://www.example.com/');

PHP:

 

Thanks for the ideas.. but none of them will work in my situation, because the code i am doing is before the header tag (thats where meta goes) and i can't resend the headers. I am going to try to use the sessions method..

Thanks Again!

 

I never tried it before, but you have a sleep() function in PHP, maybe combining that with header() or javascript window.location you can achieve what you need.

 

It's a typo. It should be refresh: 5 ; URL=...

Thanks.

No, you can do the redirection at anytime. Just put ob_start(); at the most top of the file (before any output, usually after the <?php)

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Do a fast redirect to a inbetween redirect page that will display your message passing any information to that inbetween page you need. In the header meta portion of that inbetween page you put

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4;URL=http://site.com/PLACETOREDIRECTTHEM.html"/>

Have you seen the page that is shown to you when logging into digitalpoint.com forums? It says you will be redirected after a short period of time. This is how I am explaining to do it. With that header meta data it will wait X amount of seconds before going to the next page.

 

<?php
sleep(5);
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
?>

PHP:

 

That's a waste of server resources, since you can easily get the client to do the waiting instead.

 

FYI sleep() does not waste resources <_<

 

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, will try once i fix up another part of my code..

 

Yes it does. It holds open an Apache child process and/or connection slot.

 

but it doesn't use any cpu or memory. No need to worry, worse can happen is process gets defunct.

 

An open Apache child process uses 8M+ of real RAM. That adds up. If you'd had to manage servers that are in heavy use you'd feel my pain on seeing that sleep() call.