Time redirection in cakePHP ?

Question

header(\"refresh:5; url=\'pagetoredirect.php\'\");

we can use this if we want to redirect our page in 5 second ,

is there any way to redirect page in 5 second in

Answer 1

/cake/libs/controller/controller.php

/**
 * Convenience and object wrapper method for header().  Useful when doing tests and
 * asserting that particular headers have been set.
 *
 * @param string $status The header message that is being set.
 * @return void
 * @access public
 */
    function header($status) {
        header($status);
    }
...

Which shows that the Controller::header( ) function is a simple wrapper for direct calls to the php function header( ).

http://api.cakephp.org/class/app-controller#method-AppControllerheader

So - to accomplish what you want to do:

/app/controllers/examples_controller.php

 'examples', 'action' => 'someOtherAction' );
            $this->set( 'url', $url );
            $this->header( "refresh:5; url='".Router::url( $url )."'" );
        }
        ...
    }
?>

I pass the url to the view and don't die( ) or exit( ) in case you actually wish to render a view. An example:

/app/views/examples/some_action.ctp

    Html->link( "You are being redirected to ".Router::url( $url )." in 5 seconds. If you do not wish to wait click here.", $url ); ?>