calling php script within scripts

[melrse]

Hi,

I have a main screen which displays an entry for new employee records for a particular day.

When there are entries for the day, the records will be displayed in a table, when none exist, the table will be empty and they will press an add button to add them to a mysql table.

I then call an add script w/the usual stuff.
After they press submit, I execute the following code. I want to automatically redisplay the initial screen displaying the newly added records for that particular date and am unclear of how I am doing this. Can someone please help?

//process form
$db = mysql....
mysql_sele....
$sql= "Insert.....

// after updaing records, call main program

?? echo "<a ...., or header or none of the above?????

Thanks,
Melissa

[amcgrath]

Are you talking about
header("Location:/inital_screen.php");

[melrse]

Allen
is that the only way to do it is with the header or is there an alternate way to issue calls within scripts? I think of the header as redirecting and thought there may be something else I am not aware of.

Thanks,
Melissa

[amcgrath]

Well you could try include($file_to_include) which will bring the code in the file included into the caling script...

[melrse]

Allen,

I just tried that by adding
include ("http:main.php");

this will execute main.php from within the add script. I havn't done much with includes but I guess I need to.

Thanks much,
Melissa

[amcgrath]

You dont need the http:.... like this:

include($path_to_the_file/main.php);

where $path_to_the_file is the ... well, path to the file.