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Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load.

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On 16-11-2013 19:38, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> On Saturday 16 November 2013 13:30, in comp.lang.php, "Luuk"
> <luuk@invalid.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@arcor.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 16/11/13 11:37, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>>>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.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-page-and-refresh-page
>
> Which all appear to involve a Javascript solution.
>
> The OP asked for a solution that worked "WITHOUT cookies and/or Javascript".
>
>

a WORKING solution is always better ;)

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detecting refresh versus initial page load. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-16 09:18 +0000
  Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-11-16 11:37 +0000
    Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-11-16 15:34 +0000
      Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> - 2013-11-16 16:29 +0000
      Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-11-16 16:38 +0000
        Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-11-16 18:11 +0100
          Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2013-11-16 13:21 -0500
            Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-11-16 19:30 +0100
              Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2013-11-16 13:38 -0500
                Re: detecting refresh versus initial page load. Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2013-11-16 22:11 +0100

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