Refresh Page?

[New Coder]

Hello all,

 

Is there a way that I can get a page to refresh it's information if navigated to from another page using the refresh button.

 

For instance:

 

A user is viewing page 1, they navigate to page 2, they return to page 1 by preesing the back button. Can page 1 then refresh itself just incase the details have changed since last viewing?

 

Many thanks

[camdagr81]

You could of course use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] and try to come up with a statement that would determine if the user was coming from a page that is ahead of the current page in the site map.

 

<?php
    $ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
    if (preg_match('/page2.php/i', $ref)) { header("Location: page1.php"); }
?>

[hvle]

A user is viewing page 1, they navigate to page 2, they return to page 1 by preesing the back button. Can page 1 then refresh itself just incase the details have changed since last viewing?

 

Interesting question!

 

I think this is a browser problem, and since it is browser, you can not achieve this any how.

As my understanding of course.  Maybe someone else have diff idea.

 

Anyway, you can set a refresh timer or something say 10 seconds and browser will refresh itself if updated information.

 

 

[Jessica]

Add no-cache headers to the pages.

[New Coder]

Ok thanks,

I will give the no-cache headers a try and will let you know how I get on.

 

Many Thanks