Clearing a page? Refreshing a page, or adding functions to a link?

Hi there

This is a bit of a strange issue, well it is to me being a newbie lol.

I'll start with my code:

<?
      $num=3;
      $width=100/$num;
      $cnt=0;
      
      $items="<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center'><tr>";
      $taa=0;
      
      if(mysql_num_rows($online_sql) > 0) {
          while ($online = mysql_fetch_array($online_sql)) {
            $taa++;
            if ($cnt==$num){
                $items.="</tr><tr>";
                $cnt=0;
            }
 
            $items.="<td style='padding-bottom:20px; padding-right:20px;'>
                        <table class='border' bgcolor='#000000'>
                            <tbody>
                                <tr>
                                    <td style='height:190px;'><a href='".processLink($online["product_id"], $online["name"])."'><img alt='".$online["name"]."' border=0 src='makethumb.php?pic=product_images/".$online["filename"]."&w=122&sq=N' /></a><br /><div align='center'><a href='".processLink($online["product_id"], $online["name"])."'>".$online["name"]."</a>
                                    </td>
                                </tr>
                        </tbody>
                  </table>
                  </td>";
             $cnt++;
 
             $items.="</tr></tbody></table>";
             print $items;
    }
    } else {
        print "<center>We're sorry, but no one is online </center>";
}
?>
      <?  
        if (!isset($_GET["id"])) $_GET["id"]='';
        if ($_GET["id"]!=''){
        require "profiles.php";
            } else {
            $engine->load(); 
        }
    ?>

PHP:

This code is contained in my index.php file. What it does is grab the data from the database to display pictures of people who are online. It also creates a link over the image, which once clicked loads up that persons profile.

I think that the profile is loaded by this code: $engine->load(); which is shown in the above code. I think it calls a module and essentially includes a PHP file (which holds the profile for the person). The link to the profile is in this format: http://www.mysite.com/JONATHAN,217. I guess that its getting the user name and ID?

The problem is that the profile is being loaded directly into the index.php file underneath all the images. What I need to do is try to clear the images first, and then load the profile, all within the index.php page, or on a separate page. It just looks a mess when the profile is loaded underneath the images.

I tried to add some kind of page counter, but realised that wouldn't work. Could I not add the above code to the link that is processed using 'onclick' and call a separate file called user_profile.php? My problem is getting the data into a link format using PHP. Or maybe use the $engine->load(); within the link?

Or does anyone have any better ideas? I'm sure there must be something else I can do, for example, is there no function to load a php file in the else statement, or redirect to another file?

Any help would be great.

kind regards
Jonathan