page not refreshing after clicking delete button - php

Question

good day
need some help here, my Delete button works but page is not automatically refreshing after i clicked the delete button. i still need to manually retrieve the data from db and it would reflect that data is deleted already...
here is my code for delete php: how can i make this to refresh the page automatically?
<?php
require 'include/DB_Open.php';
$id = $_POST['id'];
$idtodelete = "'" . implode("','",$id) . "'";
$query = "DELETE FROM tbl WHERE ticket in (" . $idtodelete . ")";
$myData = mysql_query($query);
echo "DATA DELETED";
if($myData)
{
header("Location: delete.php");
}
include 'include/DB_Close.php';
?>

Answer 1

I suggest fetching the data after your delete logic. Then the delete logic will be executed before fetching the tickets.
Then a redirect to the same page isn't even necessary.
//
// DELETE
//
if (isset($_POST['delete'] && isset($_POST['id'])) {
// Do delete stuff,
// notice delete variable which would be the name of the delete form button e.g.
// If you like, you can still echo "Data deleted here" in e.g. a notification window
}
//
// FETCH data
//
$query = "Select * FROM tbl";
...

Answer 2

if you use post method better with this
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST")
{
$id = $_POST['id'];
$idtodelete = "'" . implode("','",$id) . "'";
$query = "DELETE FROM tbl WHERE ticket in (" . $idtodelete . ")";
if (mysql_query($query))
{
header("Location: delete.php");
} else {
echo "Can not delete";
}
}

Answer 3

As suggested on one of the comments, and on the php documentation:
http://it2.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php :
Remember that header() must be called before any actual output is sent, either by normal HTML tags, blank lines in a file, or from PHP. It is a very common error to read code with include, or require, functions, or another file access function, and have spaces or empty lines that are output before header() is called. The same problem exists when using a single PHP/HTML file.
Basically you have to take out the :
echo "DATA DELETED";
What's the point to try to echo that string if the page is going to be redirected anyway?
If you want to make it fancy you could use Ajax to delete it, and trigger a setTimeout() on JavaScript x seconds after showing the message.
Or if you really really really really, REALLY, want to do it this way, you could disable the errors report/display (using error_reporting(0) and ini_set('display_errors', 'Off'). By experience I know that it will work, but it's nasty and extremately ultra highly not recommended