PHP Header redirect to Multiple URLs with a time gap
Question
Can i use header() to redirect to multiple URLs with a time gap in between? Suppose i have url1 and url2. Now, what i want is that header first redirects to url1. Then say,after 5 seconds, it redirects me to url2. Is there a way i can do that? I tried the following simple code
<?php
header("Location: url1");
header("Location: url2");
?>
But this takes me immediately to url2. I want a time gap in between. How can that be done? Thanks in advance.
5 answers
solution1
4 2012-07-25 06:43:24
That is not how it works. The redirect will take you to a new page...and THAT page would then have to do the next redirect. You should do something like:
PAGE 1:
<?php
header("Location: url1");
exit();
?>
PAGE 2:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=url2">
</head>
solution2
1 2012-07-25 06:46:56
No, you can't do that. Both headers are immediately sent to the browser, with the latter one overwriting the first one. You can add "Refresh: X" before the url, but it will only work for the last header sent (the URL that will get redirected to).
Actually I don't see any way to accomplish this unless you control what is on url1 or use some tricks with frames.
solution3
0 2012-07-25 06:46:57
When you have been redirected to url1 you no longer posses the control to do another redirection.
You need to specifically redirect from url1 to url2 on url1 .
You can also try iframe if you dont have control over url1
solution4
0 2012-07-25 06:49:07
In the header:
<script language="JavaScript">
var time = null
function move() {
myiframe.location.href = 'url2';
}
</script>
and this in the body:
<body onload="timer=setTimeout('move()',2000)"> //where 2000 is 2 seconds
<iframe id="myiframe" name="myiframe" src="url1"> </iframe>
Cheers
solution5
0 ACCPTED 2012-07-25 08:51:17
As pointed out by subirkumarsao, Martin and Edmunds, iframes is the way to go. Here is the final code:
<html>
<iframe src="url1" width="500" height="500"> </iframe>
</html>
<?php
include('exp2.php');
?>
Now exp2.php has a submit button(This appears at the bottom of frame) which takes me to next.php. And next.php has the code:
<?php
header("Location:url2");
exit();
?>
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