Refresh page after form submitting

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> <!-- notice the updated action -->
<textarea cols="30" rows="4" name="update" id="update" maxlength="200" ></textarea>
<br />
<input name="submit_button" type="submit"  value=" Update "  id="update_button"  class="update_button"/> <!-- notice added name="" -->
</form>

on your full page, you could have this

<?php

// check if the form was submitted
if ($_POST['submit_button']) {
    // this means the submit button was clicked, and the form has refreshed the page
    // to access the content in text area, you would do this
    $a = $_POST['update'];

    // now $a contains the data from the textarea, so you can do whatever with it
    // this will echo the data on the page
    echo $a;
}
else {
    // form not submitted, so show the form

?>

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"> <!-- notice the updated action -->
<textarea cols="30" rows="4" name="update" id="update" maxlength="200" ></textarea>
<br />
<input name="submit_button" type="submit"  value=" Update "  id="update_button"  class="update_button"/> <!-- notice added name="" -->
</form>

<?php

} // end "else" loop

?>

If you want the form to be submitted on the same page then remove the action from the form attributes.

<form method="POST" name="myform">
 <!-- Your HTML code Here -->
</form>

However, If you want to reload the page or redirect the page after submitting the form from another file then you call this function in php and it will redirect the page in 0 seconds. Also, You can use the header if you want to, just make sure you don't have any content before using the header

 function page_redirect($location)
 {
   echo '<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" Content="0; URL='.$location.'">';
   exit; 
 }

 // I want the page to go to google.
 // page_redirect("http://www.google.com")

   <form method="post" action="">
   <table>
   <tr><td><input name="Submit" type="submit" value="refresh"></td></tr>
   </table>
   </form>

<?php
    if(isset($_POST['Submit']))
    {
    header("Location: http://yourpagehere.com");
    }
?>

LOL, I'm just wondering why no one had idea about the PHP header function:

header("Refresh: 0"); // here 0 is in seconds

I use this, so user is not prompt to resubmit data if he refresh the page.

See Refresh a page using PHP for more details

action attribute in <form method="post" action="action="""> should be just action=""