Refreshing pages for data.

[nat]

Our Session Trouble is semi fixed.
Now we have to press refresh and all the values show up.
However at least for now we need a way to just refresh the page once automatically.
How can we do this with just php not the meta refresh tag.
Nor headers.

[sarahk]

What's the problem with using meta refresh? Might help if you explained this.

I doubt you could do it with php as it is server side and pushes text out to the browser and loses control.

If you wanted you could set window.location = url after a timer delay.

[the_Igel]

You can't reload page with php.
Php runs on server, aand reload runs in browser 🙂

Anyway you need meta or JS or headers...........

[Weedpacket]

I don't see what's wrong with using a meta refresh, either. If the problem is that it would refresh and keep refreshing (and why do you need it refreshed even once? Isn't the initial response from the update enough?), have writing the meta tag under PHP's control, and not write it the second time. You've got sessioning under control. so identifying which requests those are should not be any trouble.

A bit of context to the question would be nice (most of us wouldn't even know what "Our Session Trouble" was in the first place, let alone what "semi-fixed" means.)

[acidbox]

could you explain how to tell php to not let the meta refresh continuously loop?

I tried setting the variables that it takes to get into the if statement to null but that doesn't work.

i also tried using the url="/index.php?mode=" in an attempt to nullify the $mode var that sends the script into the refresh mode. That did not work either. If you could tell me how to successfully refresh the page I would appreciate it.

[the_Igel]

At first, set the cookie like REFRESHED=true;

then,
if (_COOKIE['REFRESHED'] != true)
echo '<META refresh...>';

and if _COOKIE['REFRESHED'] == true, then echo nothing.

So, first time there's no cookie set and page will be sent with meta refresh, and next time it will sent without.