Redirect help

[mikey.rr]

Well, I'm making a CMS...and I started on it today.

I have the very basic member login system down...but I have a little problem.

 

How do I make a page redirect? Not with the header thing either...

My examples:

This is if someone enters 'index.php'. It will automatically, and hopefully instantly, redirect them to 'index.php?act=index'.

elseif(empty($act)) 
{
//somehow redirect to index.php?act=index here
}

 

And this is in the login validation file...

If they login correctly, it sets a session variable to 1, meaning you are logged in throughout the site.

Then, it redirects them back to index.php?act=index. But I can't figure out how to do that either...

} else { 
$_SESSION['logged_in'] = '1'; 
$_SESSION['username'] = $username;

echo 'Thank you for logging in, '.$username;
echo "<br /><b><font size='2'><a href='?act=index'>Click here to return to the index</a></font></b>";
//I'd like to replace the above line with the redirect
}

 

Help please?

[joeysarsenal]

best way to redirect is threw headers i found.

if($result) {

if(mysql_num_rows($result)>0) {

//Login Successful

session_regenerate_id();

$member=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

$_SESSION['SESS_MEMBER_ID']=$member['member_id'];

session_write_close();

header("location: ../Loginsucces.htm");

exit();

}else {

//Login failed

header("location: ../loginfailed.htm");

exit();

}

[mikey.rr]

Oh wow I'm stupid.

I just had to do this:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.location = "?act=index"
//-->
</script>

But how would I be able to delay that a few seconds?

[GingerRobot]

Use the HTML meta tag:

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://www.google.com">

 

Would redirect to google after 2 seconds.

[LemonInflux]

They don't work in IE6, apparently. Another reason people should get firefox, I guess.