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sstonge

Hi. I've been looking for way to have a page auto reload only when $flag = 1. It worked fine in internet explore by useing

echo '<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> document.location = "cardsearch1.php#search"; </script>';

but when I view the same page in netscape it doesnt work.

any ideas

thanks

leatherback

Hey Stonge,

Remeber the big difference between javascript and php: Javascript is CLIENT side scripting, and thus depends on the users-system.

PhP is SERVER side scripting, and thus happens on the server. $flag seems like a PhP variable. Thus you need to do through your php script (Unless you want to go grabbing url-s etc).

I suggest you look into the header("Location: somepage.php"); option:

if($flag==1)
  {
  header("Location: somepage.php"); 
  }

Hope this helps,

sstonge

will that work if I use it at the end or the middle of the page and not at the top?

AstroTeg

Its not clear what you're ultimate goal is, but it sounds like you want to keep to using JavaScript.

You're document.location is a IE-centric. I think you're going to want 'location.href = "url"'. If not, check out for more JavaScript redirect options:

http://developer.irt.org/script/redirect.htm

leatherback

Hey Sstonge,

The way I work it:
I do not echo anything to the user, until the script has run completely, and then one by one I echo the sections. So all PhP processing is finished then. (I create variables which will hold theoutput till the end). That way you can always change the page using header-> location.

sstonge

hmmm... that's a great way to do it! haha, I can't beleave I didn't think of that. :eek:

Thanks man. From now on I'll be doing that for sure, It would sure make my coding look a lot better!