refresh page

[Kay1021]

Is there a way that i refresh a page depending on circumstance.

 

like

 

if($refresh=='yes'){

    //refresh page

}

 

thanks

[ldougherty]

Sure, just use some type of page refresh be it HTML, Javascript, etc..

 

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/article.php/3479551

[Kay1021]

I've been searching and everything i found was about a user clicking....or doing it after a certain period of time.

 

like the meta tag has to go in the head tags so that doesn't help...i was hoping there was another way

[ldougherty]

You can just use the header function to send a new url to the browser, ofcourse you have to specify the url as the current page but that would work for you.

 

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

[Kay1021]

Thanks that's what i thought i had to use...the header

 

but it wasn't working I guess i just have to try a different approach. It's because i'm using like a lightbox thing...and i wanted the page to refresh after you closed the lightbox...i was using some script i had used other times...that would send a variable through the url in the js and then (in the other cases) i would GET and then update my database....i thought i could do the same thing just GET and then do the refresh if the terms were right. But it doesn't seem to be doing anything....i'll have to try something else

 

thanks for the help

[Kay1021]

ok my code does work...just not the refresh...i tested it updating my db and it does so when you close the box....however you have to manually refresh the page to see the results if i put the header code in there it doesn't do anything this is my code on the php page (view_category)

if(isset($_GET['r']))
	{
//updating database works here
//header("Location: view_category.php"); will not do anything
}

 

I can't find anything to work...i just want it to refresh

 

 

[.josh]

maybe it doesn't work because you have it commented out?

[Kay1021]

i don't have it commented out in my code...i was just making a note