How to redirect visitor to another page after certain time in PHP?

Question

What are some hidden tricks of PHP in putting timeout on the page and redirect it to another page?

Solution

You can use sleep on the server-side then redirect to another page with header. Or you can send an HTML page with <meta> tag that specifies redirect location and delay time.

Using sleep and header

<?php
sleep(2);
header('Location: http://www.example.com/');
?>

Using <meta> tag

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://www.example.com/">

Comments

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header("refresh: 5; http://www.example.com/");