We are going to create a page reload using PHP. Now if you're not sure if PHP works on your web host, then create a .php page and type in the following code:

 <?php echo "Hello World!"; ?> 

That should tell you if your web host provides PHP or not. Most servers do, some free ones do not.


Getting started, we first will write our variables for this script:

<?php



$page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; // you can get rid of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; and replace it with your own link. e.x: $page = "demo.html";



?>

In this tutorial, we will be using the famous, header(); function.... I will show you a few other ways of reloading a page as well....

<?php



// so far we have our page we want to reload so now lets actually get it to work...



$page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; // you can get rid of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; and replace it with your own link. e.x: $page = "demo.html";



// bellow we will set an exact amount of seconds we want the page to reload...



$sec = "10"; // you can change this to however many seconds you want the page to reload..



header("Refresh: $sec; url=$page");



?>

And for all of you who do not have php, we will use the meta tag version...

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10;url=demo.html">

That will reload you to DEMO.html lets do a reload that will reload the page we are currently at

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10">

Simple huh? Now I will re-write the PHP script with out the comment tags for those who just like to copy and paste.

<?php



$page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];



$sec = "10";



header("Refresh: $sec; url=$page");



echo "Watch the page reload itself!";



?>

Hope this was helpful to some new people :D