display page, wait , then forward to another page

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Hi,

 

I need help what i need to do is to display a page ( in this case a sending mail page ) pause for about then forward to the mail sent page.

 

i'd like to be able to do this in PHP is there a way or would it be easyer to just update a text box on the current page after the pause?

 

eather way i'm having trouble coding it in PHP.

 

please help 

 

Paul

[GingerRobot]

You can't do it with PHP. PHP is a server side language. By the time output is shown in the browser, your php code has been executed. To do a time-delayed re-direct, use a meta refresh:

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://example.com" />

 

Above code would redirect to example.com after 5 seconds.

[phpQuestioner]

You can't do it with PHP. PHP is a server side language. By the time output is shown in the browser, your php code has been executed. To do a time-delayed re-direct, use a meta refresh:

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=http://example.com" />

 

Above code would redirect to example.com after 5 seconds.

 

or

 

<?php

header("refresh: 10;url=http://www.domain.com/page2.php");

?>

[BlueSkyIS]

wow, neat. i didn't know you could put a refresh into a header()

[boom]

thanks for the replies i should have really know that myself lol