is not refreshing

I had a (very) simple login script which was working beautifully, and somehow, without much, if any, changes on the script page I have the following error:

The Problem

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.xxxxxx.com/index.php" />

JavaScript
 
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.xxxxxx.com/index.php" />​

The above code is not refreshing, which means the user is not getting redirected after login. He/she has to manually refresh the page to start his/her session:

As you can see from above image, the login was successful, but the page isn’t refreshing.

Please note using header("location:") is not an option here:

Also note I’m using Ajax with the form submission for what that is worth…

Part of the login script:

if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {

    // Do stuff
    if(mysqli_num_rows($result) = 1) {
        while
        {
            // GET session variables
        }//while
        echo 'Success! Logging In....';
        echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.xxxxx.com/index.php" />'//now refresh page
    } //if
} //if

JavaScript
 
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {​    // Do stuff    if(mysqli_num_rows($result) = 1) {        while        {            // GET session variables        }//while        echo 'Success! Logging In....';        echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.xxxxx.com/index.php" />'//now refresh page    } //if} //if​

Strangely, this was working for me above, but it has since yesterday stopped working.

Solution

Is there a reason why this is not working?

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Is there any alternative approach?

Answer

The way you are trying to do it will not work, because the <meta> tag is supposed to come in the <head> section of your page, not in the body. Plus, you can’t use <meta http-equiv="refresh"> or any other header directives once output is sent.

Try replacing this part:

echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.xxxxx.com/index.php" />'

JavaScript
 
echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.xxxxx.com/index.php" />'​

with this:

echo '<script>location.href="http://www.xxxxx.com/index.php"</script>';

JavaScript
 
echo '<script>location.href="http://www.xxxxx.com/index.php"</script>';​

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