PHP refresh window? equivalent to F5 page reload?

Question

Is there anything in PHP that is the equivalent of manually pressing the F5 page reload button? My php script is in a frame and isn\'t the parent script but it needs to ref

Answer 1

PHP cannot force the client to do anything. It cannot refresh the page, let alone refresh the parent of a frame.

EDIT: You can of course, make PHP write JavaScript, but this is not PHP doing, it's actually JavaScript, and it will fail if JavaScript is disabled.

<?php
    echo '<script>parent.window.location.reload(true);</script>';
?>

Answer 2

with php you can use two redirections. It works same as refresh in some issues.

you can use a page redirect.php and post your last url to it by GET method (for example). then in redirect.php you can change header to location you`ve sent to it by GET method.

like this: your page:

<?php
header("location:redirec.php?ref=".$your_url);
?>

redirect.php:

<?php
$ref_url=$_GET["ref"];
header("location:redirec.php?ref=".$ref_url);
?>

that worked for me good.

Answer 3

guess you could echo the meta tag to do the refresh in regular intervals ... like

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600" url="your-url-here"> 

Answer 4

All you need to do to manually refresh a page is to provide a link pointing to the same page

Like this: Refresh the selection

Answer 5

Adding following in the page header works for me:

<?php

if($i_wanna_reload_the_full_page_on_top == "yes")
{
$reloadneeded = "1";
}
else
{
$reloadneeded = "0";
}

if($reloadneeded > 0)
{
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
top.window.location='indexframes.php';
</script>
<?php
}else{}
?>

Answer 6

If you have any text before a

header('Location: http://www.example.com/youformhere.php');

you'll have issues, because that must be sent before any other text is sent to the page.

Try using this code instead

<?php 
$page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo '<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;' . $page . '">';
?>

Just remember, this code will create and infinite loop, so you'll probably need to make some conditional changes to it.