getting page to refresh after script is done...

Anon

Wazzup everybody...

I'm trying to get a page to automatically refresh after the script is run... I was using the 'Meta Refresh' within the head, but the timing on that is static, while the page load time will differentiate pending on how much data is in the database.
Then I tried this command, that a friend gave me:
header("Location: submit.php\n\n");

That gave me this error:
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent in /submit.php on line 28

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Lazzerous

Anon

Once your script is done, put:

echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=1;URL=submit.php>";

I have this on a few of my pages, but I have never tried it in PHP. I'm sure it will work though.

Anon

That tag has to go within the head of the html document. It will not work within php because it has a semi-colon within it
Also, due to page load time changing on the amount of data in the database, I will not be able to set an accurate time for the refresh.

I need something to set the refresh immediatly the script finishes loading...

If anyone has a solution to this, I would greatly appreciat it.

Thanks,
Patrick

Anon

i can't quite follow what you're trying to do. what if the script for?

Anon

Does anyone know how to refresh a table on a
html page.I know how to refresh a page but that is not what.I want to create a refresh button that will refresh the table only/

Anon

(by the way, the command did work for refreshing the page. I used it in the middle of the page)

For what you need it sounds like javascript would work best. Use a onLoad command to run the refresh/redirect once the page is done loading.

Anon

I used javascript to refresh the html page,
but I actually need to refresh a asp page.
I have used so many different ways to try to
keep the data on the for after reload but nothing is working.And I have uased 5 0different cookies do this .Do you have any other ideas?

Anon

Print some javascript code:

if ($script_is_done) {
?>
<script language="Javascript">
document.location="next_page.php?<? echo $query_string_to_pass ?>";
</script>
<?
}

ok,
iskandar

Anon

You can only use header("Location:...") before you output ANYTHING to the browser, including any random white space.

Anon

You could try sending a php refresh header at the start of your script, but I guess you'll have the same problem with the static refresh thing. Anyways if you wanna play with it the syntax is something like :

header("refresh:3;url=./thepage.php");

where the 3 is the time, you can send this at the start of your script and it will still execute the rest of the script until the time you put in is up

hope this is of some help

Anon

Incidently Eric's code does work for me at least...