There may be times when you want a specific page (URL) to automatically redirect to a different page before loading. To do so, place the following at the very top of the coded page, before anything else on the page.

This would be used for a temporary redirect.

// redirect the user
header('Location: http://example.com/newpage.html');
exit;

To perform a permanent redirect (status code 301), you can use the following.

// redirect the user
header('Location: http://example.com/newpage.html', true, 301);
exit;

Only redirecting after a set time. The following waits 5 seconds and then automatically redirects.

// redirect the user
header('refresh:5;url=http://example.com/newpage.html');
exit;