How to refresh/redirect page after some seconds in Zend Framework 1.12

Question

I came across to an obstacle for me when i wanted to output a message for couple seconds in the page then redirect the user after to a different page. i know we can do it with plain php as in header("Refresh:4; url=http://www.targeturl.com"); How can i do the same thing in Zend Framework? Thank you.

Answer 1

Either put a sleep before the redirect

sleep(4);
$this->view->_redirect('http://www.targeturl.com');

or use meta refresh

$this->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv('Refresh', '4;URL=http://www.targeturl.com');

I think the latter is what you are after.