I'm trying to print something, wait 5 seconds and move to another page. I'm using the sleep function but for some reason nothing is printed and looks like it skips the print part.
It looks like this:
<?php
echo "Thank you!";
sleep(5);
?>
<script type="text/javascript"> window.location = '?a=home'; </script>
You need to remove php and use only javascript:
<script type="text/javascript"> setTimeout(
function() {
window.location = '?a=home';
}, 5000);
</script>
Perhaps it is better to use the HTML meta refresh tag. It has the same functionality but does so from the client:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL='?a=home'">
You can find more information here: http://www.metatags.info/meta_http_equiv_refresh
You can use javascript to do that :
setTimeout('window.location.replace("?a=home")',5000);
setTimeout. Write it as a function, as per the top voted answer.You can do it in javascript or using headers.
in js:
<script>
window.setTimeout('window.location = "?a=home"', 5000); //5000 = 5 secs
using headers:
header('Refresh: 5;url=page.php?a=home'); // 5 = 5 secs
related post: How to Redirect Page in PHP after a few seconds without meta http-equiv=REFRESH CONTENT=time
I'm pretty sure that using sleep just delays the program execution. You will only see the content when your PHP script is done and you are preventing it from doing so because of the sleep function.
setTimeout. PHP runs to completion before your page is displayed.