Redirecting with php

[bramil5]

Make sure that you put the code in the very top op you page.
Nothing that creates ouput such as the echo or print function, or html can be above it.

<?php
header("Location: http://yoursite.com");
?>

Code should be pretty self explanatory.

Hope this helps.

[13th_shadowflower]

what if I want to display something first, then redirect the user?
like..

this page doesn't exist. You will be redirected to the main page in x seconds

[LHVWB]

Its probably easier to do it with a Meta tag.
http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/meta.php

You would use some code like this.

<?php

     header("Refresh: 3; url=index.php");

     echo("You will be redirected in 3 seconds.");
?>

You can easily change the 3 if you want to change the number of seconds (0 will give you instant), and the url. Have a look at this for reference.
http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#80704

[supajason]

the best thing to do is to use "ob_start()" at the top of the page, by using this it does send anything to the browser until you use "ob_end_flush()" this way you can echo things and if you want you can change the header.