help with php redirection

[realnsleo]

hello, could someone show me how to redirect a page in php after a specific amount of time like 5 seconds. thanks

[UrbanSky]

you can do that in php because php is a server side script. Once it has processed the script and set it to the browser it has no more control of the page. The easiest way is to use javascipt

[phper]

You can also use META Refresh. As shown below
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://www.wikipedia.org/" />

Content="10" states how long to wait.
URL states where to redirect to.

[johny_d]

Here's the php code

<?php
header('refresh:5; url=new_page.php');
?>

Be very careful NOT to output anything (not even a blank space before the php tag) to the browser before you call the refresh beacause it will give you an error.