Heck Designs » functions http://www.heckdesigns.com Bringing your ideas to life with a functional design in mind. Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:31:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Tutorial – Delayed Redirect using PHP http://www.heckdesigns.com/tutorials/tutorial-delayed-redirect-using-php/ http://www.heckdesigns.com/tutorials/tutorial-delayed-redirect-using-php/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:53:14 +0000 Robert Heck http://www.heckdesigns.com/?p=540 Read More Here]]> I had to look into this because I had a form that I wanted to show a thank you message for a moment and then have it redirect back to the main page.

Now the first thought is to use:

  1. header(‘Location: /’);

The problem with this is that as I’m displaying a message beforehand. This becomes an invalid PHP function as it is not first thing being executed.

This is what I found works nicely:

  1. echo ‘<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; /" />’;

It is set to wait 3 seconds before redirecting. That is how you can display a message on the page and then have it redirect to another page with a delay so that the visitor has a chance to read the message.

I hope you find this little bit of code useful.

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