Refresh page after form submitting

Question

I have a little problem. I want to reload my page after submitting a form.

<form method="post" action="">
   <textarea cols="30" rows="4" name="update" id="update" maxlength="200" ></textarea>
   <br />
   <input type="submit"  value=" Update "  id="update_button"  class="update_button"/>
</form>

Answer 1

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> <!-- notice the updated action -->
<textarea cols="30" rows="4" name="update" id="update" maxlength="200" ></textarea>
<br />
<input name="submit_button" type="submit"  value=" Update "  id="update_button"  class="update_button"/> <!-- notice added name="" -->
</form>

on your full page, you could have this

<?php

// check if the form was submitted
if ($_POST['submit_button']) {
    // this means the submit button was clicked, and the form has refreshed the page
    // to access the content in text area, you would do this
    $a = $_POST['update'];

    // now $a contains the data from the textarea, so you can do whatever with it
    // this will echo the data on the page
    echo $a;
}
else {
    // form not submitted, so show the form

?>

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> <!-- notice the updated action -->
<textarea cols="30" rows="4" name="update" id="update" maxlength="200" ></textarea>
<br />
<input name="submit_button" type="submit"  value=" Update "  id="update_button"  class="update_button"/> <!-- notice added name="" -->
</form>

<?php

} // end "else" loop

?>

Answer 2

  //insert this php code, at the end after your closing html tag. 

  <?php
  //setting connection to database
  $con = mysqli_connect("localhost","your-username","your-
  passowrd","your-dbname");

  if(isset($_POST['submit_button'])){

     $txt_area = $_POST['update']; 

       $Our_query= "INSERT INTO your-table-name (field1name, field2name) 
                  VALUES ('abc','def')"; // values should match data 
                 //  type to field names

        $insert_query = mysqli_query($con, $Our_query);

        if($insert_query){
            echo "<script>window.open('form.php','_self') </script>"; 
             // supposing form.php is where you have created this form

          }



   } //if statement close         
  ?>

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

You can maybe use :

<form method="post" action=" " onSubmit="window.location.reload()">

Answer 4

only use

 echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0'>";

right after insert query before } example

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
        {
SQL QUERY----
echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0'>";
}

Answer 5

   <form method="post" action="">
   <table>
   <tr><td><input name="Submit" type="submit" value="refresh"></td></tr>
   </table>
   </form>

<?php
    if(isset($_POST['Submit']))
    {
    header("Location: http://yourpagehere.com");
    }
?>

Answer 6

LOL, I'm just wondering why no one had idea about the PHP header function:

header("Refresh: 0"); // here 0 is in seconds

I use this, so user is not prompt to resubmit data if he refresh the page.

See Refresh a page using PHP for more details