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Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. [message #183719 is a reply to message #183718]

Sat, 16 November 2013 18:38

Lew Pitcher
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On Saturday 16 November 2013 13:30, in comp.lang.php, "Luuk"
<luuk(at)invalid(dot)lan> wrote:

> On 16-11-2013 19:21, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> On Saturday 16 November 2013 12:11, in comp.lang.php, "Christoph Michael
>> Becker" <cmbecker69(at)arcor(dot)de> wrote:
>>
>>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> writes:
>>>>
>>>> > On 16/11/13 11:37, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> >> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> writes:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> I want to make behave slightly different the first time you load it
>>>> >>> to when it refreshes itself - it auto refreshes using a meta refresh
>>>> >>> tag.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If the page is "page.php" you can make the refresh link be something
>>>> >> like "page.php?refreshed=1". Would that do what you want?
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > But then it is going to refresh itself with the same parameters isn't
>>>> > it?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that seems to meet the specification you gave, but if you want the
>>>> behaviour to be different every time, you can generate a different
>>>> number for 'refreshed' every time. This is, after all, a server-
>>>> generated page.
>>>>
>>>> > I don't think short of javascript as a replacement for
>>>> > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="107" />
>>>> >
>>>> > or whatever, there is any way to do this.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I am misunderstanding what the "this" is.
>>>
>>> I assume that the OP is not aware that the content attribute optionally
>>> accepts a URI, e.g.:
>>>
>>> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=http://example.com/">
>>
>> More specifically, if the OP's page is
>>
>> http://example.com/mypage.php
>>
>> then he can code
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;
>> url=http://example.com/mypage.php?refreshed=1" />
>>
>> and the php can then determine whether the meta refresh invoked the page
>> or not, by testing if it passed the "refreshed" option in the GET.
>>
>> Note that this does not help distinguish initial page loads from page
>> loads initiated by the browser's "Refresh" option (^R or equivalent).
>>
>>
>
> The code mentioned on stackoverflow.com seems more promissing:
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15033899/js-difference-between-enter-pag e-and-refresh-page

Which all appear to involve a Javascript solution.

The OP asked for a solution that worked "WITHOUT cookies and/or Javascript".

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		detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 16 November 2013 09:18
		Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: Ben Bacarisse on Sat, 16 November 2013 11:37
		Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 16 November 2013 15:34
		Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: Derek Turner on Sat, 16 November 2013 16:29
		Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: Ben Bacarisse on Sat, 16 November 2013 16:38
		Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: Christoph Michael Bec on Sat, 16 November 2013 17:11
		Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: Lew Pitcher on Sat, 16 November 2013 18:21
		Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: Luuk on Sat, 16 November 2013 18:30
		Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: Lew Pitcher on Sat, 16 November 2013 18:38
		Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. By: Luuk on Sat, 16 November 2013 21:11

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