You can also call the header function:
header("Location: home_page.php");
You can't call this if you've output any text, including whitespace outside of your <?php ?> tags and error messagse.
You can also use the <meta> tag:
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10; URL=http://www.yoursite.com/">
Take care,
Nik
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