Sometimes you may want to move the user away from a directory listing or another web page. There are a few ways to do this, but the quickest and most popular are as follows.

 

PHP Header Redirect: Insert the following code into the top of a .php page to tell the browser to instantly redirect to the page specified. Change the URL as appropriate. To view an example click here.

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‹?php

// This will instantly redirect to the page below.
header('Location: http://www.google.com/');

// For more information check out the php manual
// http://www.php.net/header

?›

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Meta Tag Refresh Redirect: You can also have an instant or delayed redirect using a meta tag in the tags of your webpage. Insert the following code into the head tags and change the URL as appropriate. Change the 0 to any number you want. The bigger the number the longer the delay will be before redirecting. To view an example click here.

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‹META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.google.com"›

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