Show Output and Redirect No JS

In a project I am working on I wanted to be able to do a redirect that would allow output to be displayed to the user before redirecting; but I didn't want to use Javascript.

The CI redirect function in the URL helper did the majority of the work; all I had to do was make a couple of slight modifications.

As you can see in the original code [code] if ( ! function_exists('redirect')) { function redirect($uri = '', $method = 'location', $http_response_code = 302) { if ( ! preg_match('#^https?://#i', $uri)) { $uri = site_url($uri); }

    switch($method)
    {
        case 'refresh': header("Refresh:0;url=".$uri);
            break;
        default: header("Location: ".$uri, TRUE, $http_response_code);
            break;
    }
    exit;
}

}

[/code]

The function simply exits the entire script and doesn't allow for you to show any output, nor give it any kind of delay.

For my solution I created MY_url_helper.php in applications/helpers with the following: [code] if ( ! function_exists('redirect')) { function redirect($uri = '', $method = 'location', $http_response_code = 302,$time=0,$exit=true) { if ( ! preg_match('#^https?://#i', $uri)) { $uri = site_url($uri); }

switch($method) {
    case 'refresh':
        header("Refresh:$time;url=".$uri);
    break;
    default: header("Location: ".$uri, TRUE, $http_response_code);
    break;
}
if($exit === false) // i chose to use false here to make sure the programmer actually enters false in the function call.
    return;
else
    exit;
}

} [/code]

Simple enough. By default the function will redirect in 0 seconds, exit and not break any existing usage. My desire for this functionality came from wanting to forward a user automatically to their control panel the first time they ever logged into my site, while also giving them the ability to override that by clicking elsewhere on the page.