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 refresh the entire page and not just it's frame.

Answer 1

Actually it is possible:

Header('Location: '.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
Exit(); //optional

And it will reload the same page.

Answer 2

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.