Display Msg & Open Page

[Ache]

What I want is to show the user a message, wait a few seconds and then open a page in the same window.I got the code as below, but it is not working.It does wait and opens the page correctly, but the message is not shown.

if ($waarde == 1)	{	echo "Gebruikersnaam bestaat al";	sleep(5);	echo ("<script>window.location ='aanmelden.php';</script>");	}

[Synook]

PHP code is all executed before the page is sent to the client (so all that script does is delay the response by five seconds). You could do the sort of thing you want in JS though:

document.getElementById("msg").innerHTML = "Gebruikersnaam bestaat al";setTimeout("window.location ='aanmelden.php'", 5000);

[Ache]

Thanks. Got it working now.

if ($waarde == 1)	{	echo ("Gebruikersnaam bestaat al");	echo ("<script>setTimeout(\"window.location ='aanmelden.php'\", 5000);</script>");	exit();	}//more code can be placed here. But will not be executed if $waarde equals 1 (one)

[Synook]

By the way, you don't need the parenthesis surrounding the parameter of echo, because it is a language construct and not technically a function. Parenthesis just slow things down.