Redirecting a page to another page for 5 seconds then redirecting again

Question

I am trying to redirect a page to another page and that was working successfully. However I am trying to redirect the first page to another page with adverts. This page will then redirect to another page after five seconds.

I am trying to do that by doing this:

<?php
include('ads.php');
?>
<?php 
sleep(2);
$url = $_GET['url'];
header("Location: ".$url."");
exit;
?>

However it is showing the advert in ads.php perfectly, but it is not redirecting after five seconds. I am receiving this error in my web browser:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by 
(output started at /home/nucleusi/public_html/adverts/ads.php:1)
in /home/nucleusi/public_html/adverts/index.php on line 7

A typical link I would be redirecting to would be this:

http://domain.com/adverts/index.php/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fmx%2Falbum%2Fstill-got-the-blues%2Fid14135178%3Fi%3D14135158

Answer 1

on the first page(before the ads) before the doctype or html tags put:

<?php header("location: adlocationhere.php"); ?>

Then on the ad page put this:

<?php header("refresh:5;url=secondredirectafter5seconds.php"); ?>

This will redirect your first page immediately and it will redirect your second page after 5 seconds. Hope this helps (its should also get rid of the cannot modify header info if you put it before the doctype and html tags).

EDIT: Also having javascript do it can be a security risk b/c any user can change its location. By doing it this way you have full control over where the user is being directed.

Answer 2

Use refresh meta tag or javascript window.location

Answer 3

This might help you

setTimeout("javascript window.location",3000)

with regards

Wazzy