Timer before refresh

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

 

i use this piece of code to refresh to another page:

 

// javascript refresh //
  print('<script type="text/javascript">window.location = "account.php"</script>');

 

is there a way i can delay it by like 10 seconds or so to display a message before it refreshed?

 

thanks guys

 

Graham

[fenway]

setTimeout?

[graham23s]

Hi Mate,

 

that sounds good i tried:

 

print('<script type="text/javascript">setTimeout("window.location="account.php", 500")</script>');

 

but this doesn't work is it a syntax problem at all?

 

cheers

 

Graham

[fenway]

Yes, it's a quoting issue... escape your nested double quotes.

[graham23s]

Hi Mate,

 

i did:

 

print('<script type="text/javascript">setTimeout("window.location=\"account.php\", 500")</script>');

 

but from what i can see it doesn't wait 5 seconds before refreshing it still does it pretty much straight away i thought 500 millisecs was 5 seconds am i wrong?

 

thanks mate

 

Graham

[Guest]

An ms is a thousandth of a second. You can think of it as mille = french word for thousand. As a millimeter is a thousandth of a meter.

 

5000 ms is 5 seconds. Set it to 5000.

[fenway]

Or you can think of it as latin, since it is.