Refresh the page using php or html

Hi, every one!

I have a simple problem here but i can not fix it, can anyone help me?

I am trying to make a auto refresh on one page after a transaction.I only one it to refresh one time which user go to that page every time?

hi,

for reloading a page after a regular interaval you can use meta refresh in html.


<< I am trying to make a auto refresh on one page after a transaction.
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one option , is you can use window.reload() in java script.
But it may give some problem in old versions of netscape.


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I only one it to refresh one time which user go to that page every time?
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i think you are facing page caching problem.isn't it??.

in that case use header() function to solve that in php3.

eg:

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");


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[This message has been edited by Shiju Rajan (edited May 19, 2000).]

Hi, thank for the reply.

I had try to put the code "Header()" you give into my html page, but it doesn't make any different. I put the code before the html tag, is it right? if not where should i put.....

header() must be called before any actual output is sent either by normal HTML tags or from PHP.


we can disable the caching using the following..

header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); // always modified

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1

header("Pragma: no-cache"); // HTTP/1.0


just place this top of your php script.




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shiju.dreamcenter.net

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