The "old school" HTTP-EQUIV of a refresh with a time and URL would probably be suitable for this. YMMV And it's still not PHP. :-) On Thu, December 14, 2006 11:08 am, bruce wrote: > 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 > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php