php - Force reload/refresh when pressing the back button

Question

I will try my best to explain this.

I have an application that show the 50+ projects in my view page. The user can click the individual project and go to the update page to update the project information. Everything works fine except that after user finish updating the individual project information and hit 'back' button on the browser to the previous view page. The old project information (before update) is still there. The user has to hit refresh to see the updated information. It not that bad, but I wish to provide better user experience. Any idea to fix this? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

I use these four lines of PHP code:

// any valid date in the past
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
// always modified right now
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
// HTTP/1.1
header("Cache-Control: private, no-store, max-age=0, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
// HTTP/1.0
header("Pragma: no-cache");

The key is using the "no-store" clause of the Cache-Control header.