all these are solid posts... however, the original posting, was not to do a redirect on the page being presented. the original post, was to display some content rolling down the page, wait some time, and 'then' redirect the user to another page. i wanted to be able to accomplish this without having the user hitting some 'submit' button. thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Brad Fuller [mailto:bfuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:40 AM To: 'PHP General List' Subject: RE: php redirection.. Better to do this on the client side with JS <html> <head> <title>Redirect Test</title> <script language="JavaScript"> function redirect() { location.href='http://www.google.com/'; } </script> </head> <body onLoad="setTimeout('redirect()', 3000);"> <p>You will be redirected in 3 seconds...</p> </body> </html> > -----Original Message----- > From: Youri LACAN-BARTLEY [mailto:ylacan@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:44 AM > To: PHP General List > Subject: Re: php redirection.. > > Budi Setiawan wrote: > >> basically: > >> > >> cat.php > >> -echo " test content<br>" > >> -echo " more test content<br>" > >> > >> //redirect user > >> echo" > >> <script> > >> location.href='foo.php'; > >> </script> > >> "; > >> > > > > > > Hi , im a new too.. > > > > but you can try with this to delay your script running for some seconds > : > > echo " test content<br>" > > echo " more test content<br>" > > > > // you can add : > > sleep(2); > > // this will cause your script delayed for 2 seconds > > > > //redirect user > > echo" > > <script> > > location.href='foo.php'; > > </script> > > "; > > > > This would work providing you don't use output buffering, otherwise the > user won't see any data whatsoever that has been sent prior to the > sleep() call. > > > > > // hhaha.. > > // im just trying to help... > > // > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
