Question

when user changes password I want to show message “Successfully changed!” and when user clicks on OK button of alert box I call logout.php and force user to login with new password.But the problem is PHP header() is not waiting for alertbox and directly goes to logout.php.
my code-

if($count==1)
{
    $sqlchange="UPDATE $tbl_name SET password='$newpassword' WHERE userId='$myusername'";
    unset($result);
    $result=mysql_query($sqlchange,$link);
    if($result>0)
        { ?>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        alert("Your Password has been changed successfully.Please login again.");
        </script>
        <?php
        header("location:logout.php");
        exit;
        }
    else 
        {....

Answer 1

The reason why you are witnessing the header redirect is that PHP is a server-side language and its code executes before the javascript. The way to go about is to use the javascript’s redirect.

<script type="text/javascript">
  alert("Your Password has been changed successfully.Please login again.")
  document.location.href = 'logout.php';
</script>