Question

I have a function that I call with ?clear-cart appended to the end of my page; as you can probably guess, this function clears the user’s cart.

I call it like this

<a href="?clear-cart">Clear Cart</a>

Which works great (in that it loads the same page, but now the cart is cleared), except that the URL in the address bar now reads

http://test.local/cart?clear-cart

Is there anyway to call ?clear-cart but have the URL return without the parameter? (Hide it from the user, since I’m only using it for an internal function call??)

Answer 1

You could clear the cart and then immediately redirect using header (obviously before any output!).

<?php
    header('Location: http://test.local/cart');
    ... clear the cart ...
?>

See the PHP reference manual for more details.