Redirecting from a page after a certain amount of time has elapsed.

[shreedhan]

Hi
I am trying to write a PHP script such that the users are limited to a certain time to view the page.
And I would like to include a countdown timer as well in the page.
How can I do that?

I am using Apache and PHP5 with mysql in linux operating system.

thanks

[kovik]

That sounds like a horrible idea. :P

Anyway, there's no way to really make that work because there are a million ways around it. You could limit them by session, but they can always start a new one. You can limit them with cookies, but they can always delete the cookie. You can limit them with JavaScript, but they can always press the back button.

Why would you want to do this?

[shreedhan]

Thanks for your response.

Actually, only logged in users are allowed to view the page. So maybe I can limit the time using "Sessions" as you said I could using sessions.

So, is there any hope?

Thanks

[pbmods]

Heya, shreedhan.

Are you looking to implement session timeout?

(once the above link expires, try running over to our Search page and look for 'session timeout' in the PHP forum)

[shreedhan]

Hi
I am trying to simulate an online test
And for that I need to redirect to results page after a certain limit of time
Is there anyway to do that?
Thanks

[ak1dnar]

How do you planing to redirect your web page to the result page. Is there any timer has setup with the application so far.
If you want to redirect the current page to another you can use headers.

PHP

header('Location: http://www.thescripts.com');
 

by adding this to your HTML head section, the current page will redirect after 5 secs to the specified location.
HTML

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=result.php">
 

[pbmods]

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