php - Send a refresh request to another page opened in the browser

Question

I have page A that creates a window with the page B.

Page B asks the user some datas, inserts them in the database and then closes itself. After the insertion, I'm trying to make page A refresh automatically (it can be both from A seeing that B has closed, or by a function triggered by B itself before (or after?) closing)

How can I do that?

Answer 1

JavaScript's window.open() returns reference to the instance of opened window. You may use it to set up onunload event handler, like this:

var hWndB = window.open('somepage.php'),
    hWndA = window.self;

hWndB.onunload = function(){ hWndA.location.reload(); }