php refreshing page after deleting a sql entry

[pouncer]

[code]
<?php
if (isset($_POST['Submit_x'])) {
$message_id = $_POST['message_id'];
echo "the delete was clicked on messageid: " . $message_id;
//delete that message with $message_id - I can do this, no problem
//refresh the page so that the table will have 1 less entry - how do i refresh?
}
?>
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[Jessica]

Don't echo anything out, and use header('Location: phppage.php');

[pouncer]

thanks for the reply jes!
I'm getting some errors, i just did this to test

[code]
  <?php
  if (isset($_POST['Submit_x'])) {
$message_id = $_POST['message_id'];
header('Location: $PHP_SELF');
}
  ?>
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Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\domains\interzurf.nl\wwwroot\socialnetwork\member\myprivatemessages.php:106) in c:\domains\interzurf.nl\wwwroot\socialnetwork\member\myprivatemessages.php on line 169

[Jessica]

Then you must be outputting something to the page before then. What is on line 106?
Read the topic on header errors too.

[pouncer]

Ok.

hmm the line 106 is

<td width="50%"><div align="right"><span class="style74"><a href="member.php">Member home</a> | <a href="myprofile.php">My profile</a> | <a href="jkj">My collections</a> | <a href="myprivatemessages.php">My private messages</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; </span></div></td>

[Jessica]

You can't output anything to the screen. If you want to be able to reload the page, you should do all your processing before you ever output anything, any HTML, anything.

[pouncer]

hmm ok thanks jess. will it work if i put a timer on the reload?

[Jessica]

If you want to use the meta refresh tag, that will work for most people.

[pouncer]

yeahh this worked

[code]
<?php
if (isset($_POST['Submit_x'])) {
$message_id = $_POST['message_id'];
echo "to delete: " . $message_id;
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"4; url=myprivatemessages.php\" />";
}
?>
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