does anyone know how to refresh a page PHP

hey peoples,

does anyone know how to refresh a page in PHP from another window.

ie. say i have 2 windows, called 'window1' and 'window2',

if i open window2 from window1, is it possible to refresh window1 from window2, as i want to make changes in window2 that affect window1. (i will be make changes to the database in window2 and displaying results in window1)

thanks again, hope its not to long winded to understand

how many seconds delay do you want it to be befor the page refreshes

PHP cannot refresh anything. Your actual output would have to include HTML or JavaScript.

PHP == Server Side
Local Windows in your Web browser == Client Side

I don't think PHP could do that, in my opinion you must use javascript.
Here the code in javascript.

in window2 (child window);

<button onClick="window.close();window.opener.location.reload(true);">CLOSE & REFRESH PARENT WINDOW</button>

Uh frames or actual browser windows?

hes talking about two windows

I think veedee's suggestion is what you are looking for, but you probably want to take the window.close() part out of it.

ok so with the following:

<button onClick="window.close();window.opener.location.reload(true);">CLOSE & REFRESH PARENT WINDOW</button>

i am assuming that this code will close the current window (window2) and reload (window1). the parent page (window1) is a PHP page, does this matter, can it still be done.

Cos this is exactly what i want to do, if the above can be achieved

Yes, exactly that's what I meant