Re: PHP Page Refresh on Redirection

on 28/01/03 4:42 PM, Phil (philcava@attbi.com) wrote: > I have a PHP page with a form that submits to another PHP processing page. > On completion of the PHP actions on the processing page, I have echoed into > the page the javascript action of 'location.href=...' and the location is > redirected to the PHP form page that starting the process. Both pages take > data from an SQL server. The problem I'm having is that the the javascript > always grabs the cached page. I need a newly refreshed page to return with > updated data from the SQL server. Any suggestions? In addition to sending the correct no-cache headers (which don't always work with certain browsers and clients), you could also attach a random string to the URL as a GET variable, so that the browser thinks it's a NEW, unread URL. include this function (straight from the manual) via a function library: <? function make_seed() { list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime()); return (float) $sec + ((float) $usec * 100000); } ?> Then to get a random number, <? // seed the rand no generator and get a rand value srand(make_seed()); $randval = rand(); ?> Then you can echo it as a get var or querystring on any URL: location.href = page.php?r=<?=$randval?> location.href = page.php?<?=$randval?> Justin