simple-ish question but something i never knew

I am wanting to forward a user on a signup or similar page (based on a few of their answers) and so far i have it split into basically a two-step process where i have on the first part, an option list with 4 choices, they hit continue or some such labled link, and then having passed all the session variables and making the decision in the next script it would forward them to the right page automatically, do I have to use meta tags to do this or is there some simple way e.g, "url=http://rightpage.php?SID" of course without the "'s except for in the actual url I could have probably done this "switch on the fly" like some pages do but I was told that requires java and i don't have or want to use java lol matt if possible i want to keep my webpages java free