redirecting problem

[dbarasuk]

Hi!
I always have seen pages with a "Redirecting..." phrase that displays for a couple of seconds before the new page appears. I tried doing:
echo "<p>Redirecting..., please wait!</P>";
header('Location:http://www.something.com');
expecting to see the redirecting message appear for some seconds before i am redirected to the www.something.com but, i never see that message, instead i am immediately redirected.

How can I make that happen?

regards!

[ichsie]

php header should be sent before any output is rendered to browser, so you will get rid of the echo before the header() to make it work.

[kunwarbs]

you may want to use sleep() function to hold the redirection directive for few seconds so that the redirection message can be displayed.

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[cameraman]

PHP is a server side scripting language; nothing will be sent to the browser until the script has finished executing.
To do the phrase you could either do a meta redirect or use javascript.