PHP: Detect Page Refresh

Question

I have a page action.php on which I run an SQL query through the code, so that whenever the page is viewed the query runs like its like counting page vi

Answer 1

I found this snippet here, and it worked perfectly for me:

$pageWasRefreshed = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL'] === 'max-age=0';

if($pageWasRefreshed ) {
   //do something because page was refreshed;
} else {
   //do nothing;
}