refreshing a page

Anon

is there a php command to reload (refresh) the current page? like:
if ($hi == 1) {
refresh;
}

that type of thing......

Anon

Assuming you can place PHP in the head section of a page, you could always put the if conditionals in the meta tag which states the refresh rate, such as...

if (statement == something) {
} print ("<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10">"); //i.e. 10 seconds
} else {
}

Might this work?

Regards.

jc94062

As Andy said, meta can be used, but if you don't want to use the head or wait...

Where content=#, where # in the number of seconds, however, this type of refresh, even if set to zero takes a split second and can be stopped by hitting stop, just about...

A slightly faster way is

header "Location: "URL IN HERE");

but note that header() has to be in the code before any output statement, including white-space not enclosed by PHP tags.

ie:

//top of page
<?

header() ... is fine

//top of page

<?
header() ... will give an error

Likewise:

<?
echo "Something";
header() ... will give an error

Hope that helps.

cahva

Heres Javascript-way to do it. I use this mostly if I use frames but it works with one page too...

function refresh(frame1,page1) {
eval("parent."+frame1+".location='"+page1+"'");
}

And then put it in the php-code:

If ($hi==1)
{
print "<script language='javascript'>refresh('mainFrame','page.php');</script>";
}

Now... Pick your flavor 🙂