reDirecting after an UPDATE

Chaz

I've made a fun little Tape database for our Multimedia Department. After only a few weeks of playing with PHP I was surprised at what I could do in such a short time.

But here's my problem.
Step 1) a user searches for some records.
Step 2) the list is returned and the user clicks an Edit button.
Step 3) the record to be modified is loaded into a seperate HTML document.
Step 4) after modifying the entry a submit button UPDATES the record.

When the UPDATE (or INSERT) statement is executed the Edit (or New) page updates to an empty form. Instead, I would like the previous search results page to load with the altered data. I've seen this done on other pages, but can't figure it out myself.

Any help would be appreciated.

PS I tried using javascript's History.back(-2) but that didn't work.

parawizard

maybe try forwarding varaibles through the rest of the PHP files then doing a java redirection function?

Chaz

Thanx for the advice. I've passed the vars along to the second page and exploded them into an array. How can I use the vars to load a new page on submission?

Originally posted by parawizard
maybe try forwarding varaibles through the rest of the PHP files then doing a java redirection function?

parawizard

well you need to pass the orignal search url

and make it equal $url to use this function

<?

function redirect() 
{ 

/* edit the below line and replace variablehere with the variable that contains the whole search URL that grabbed that displayed records in the first place */

$url = variablehere

?> 
<script> 
var link = "<? echo $url; ?>"; 
self.location = link; 
</script> 
<? 
}

then call function like this


redirect();

Chaz

Thanx again. I got it to work by echoing your statements rather than making a function.

echo "<SCRIPT Language=Javascript>";
echo "location.href='" . $temp . "'";
echo "</SCRIPT>";

Thanx for your help.

Chaz

Originally posted by parawizard
well you need to pass the orignal search url

and make it equal $url to use this function
<?

function redirect() 
{ 


$url = variablehere

?> 
<script> 
var link = "<? echo $url; ?>"; 
self.location = link; 
</script> 
<? 
} 
then call function like this
redirect(); 
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parawizard

np man. good to hear its working for you

Shrike

Why not use header("Location: somewhere.php?var=value&var2=value2"); ?

Chaz

Duh. That's exactly what I needed. Thanx.