Redirect with Timer in PHP?

Question

How can I make a redirect with PHP after say 10 seconds...

I have read alot about it, seems like it would be better with javascript. But PHP would save me alot of co

Answer 1

I managed to do it with a simple function on PHP

function RedirectToURL($url, $waitmsg = 0.4)
{
    header("Refresh:$waitmsg; URL= $url");
    exit;
}

and you call from your PHP for waiting 2 seconds before redirect. Note that $waitmsg = 0.4 is used for defining the default value.

RedirectToURL("http://website.php", 2);

If you want to redirect after a form submit, you can try

if(isset($_POST['submitted']))
{
       echo '<div style="text-align:center; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"><br><br>Sucess. Thanks for contribution.</div>';
       RedirectToURL("http://thewebsiteilookforaftersubmit", 2); // I want to wait 2 seconds and not 0.4 as defined by default
}

Answer 2

You can cause your PHP script to sleep for 10 seconds,

sleep(10);

but this will appear to the end-user as a non-responsive server. The best option is to use either a meta refresh,

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://google.com">

or javascript.

setTimeout(function(){
  window.location = "http://google.com";
}, 10000);

---

Found in the comments from Daniel:

header('Refresh: 10; URL=http://yoursite.com/page.php');

would be ideal for this situation, as it requires no Javascript or HTML.

Answer 3

That is a bad idea to make PHP script sleeping. Actually it is a way to DoS your server easily ;) PHP script in memory is consuming enough resources especially if it is working as CGI.

Answer 4

PHP is the probably wrong technology for this as it runs server-side and won't provide useful feedback to the user during the delay.

This isn't a lot of coding in Javascript. See this link for a very easy way to implement this on your page

Answer 5

Create a file, for example: "go.php", with code

<?php
$site = $_GET['iam'];
sleep(5);
Header ("Location: ".$site."");
exit();
?>

<a href="http://whatever.com/go.php?iam=http://google.com">Link</a>

or like this, without "sleep"

<?php
$site = $_GET['iam'];
Header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
Header("Refresh: 10; URL=".$site."");
exit();
?>

<a href="http://whatever.com/go.php?iam=http://google.com">Link</a>