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; 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 slight modification (yes, I know you aren't supposed to alter the Core files, however, I didn't believe that this tiny modification required making a completely new file)

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.

For my solution I replaced the above 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 )
        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.