How To Autorefresh A Page Every Two Minutes?

leiaah

Apr 27 2005, 11:49 PM

I'm working on an OFFLINE SYSTEM that uses PHP and MySQL. Something that can be used by a small network of PC's to do transactions. These are problems I need to solve:

1] I need A CODE THAT REFRESHES THE PAGE EVERY TWO OR SO MINUTES. That way the new entries in the database gets seen on the page and I don't have to press F5 or click refresh everytime.

2] How do you set CHMOD PERMISSIONS WHILE USING APACHE AS MY SERVER (OFFLINE)?

Is the idea of an OFFLINE SYSTEM sounds garbage? Is it okay to use it for transactions within a small network? SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED. Thanks in advance

Topic title change per request of owner.

leiaah

Apr 27 2005, 11:53 PM

QUOTE

Is the idea of an OFFLINE SYSTEM sounds garbage?

My grammar is wrong, sorry...should be "DOES the idea...SOUND (no 'S')"

mobious

May 1 2005, 08:02 AM

you could just add a refresh meta in the page that would be refreshed. the idea of an offline system is just right for you because no one will be using your system outside of your personal network.

electriic ink

May 1 2005, 08:12 AM

Sounds like someone's making things too difficult

It's easier to just use meta refresh - but on the other hand php refresh would mean more people would have the page refreshed. Why? Because you can disable it in most browsers!

Anyway, here's the code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="120;url=index.php">

120 represents 120s (2 minutes) and index.php represents the page you wish to refresh!

mobious

May 1 2005, 11:16 AM

PHP also has no other way of refreshing a page other than a meta refresh. so just let it be. just blame them for disabling it.

wariorpk

May 1 2005, 11:40 AM

Thanks alot cmatcmextra that was a extrememly good explination. Now if I ever need to auto refresh a page I know where I should go.

Mike

May 1 2005, 12:29 PM

Actually mobious, you are incorrect. PHP does have a way to refresh a page. Put this at the top of your page *BEFORE* the <head> tag.

CODE

header('Refresh: 120');

If you want it to refresh to a different link, put this:

CODE

header('Refresh: 120; url=PAGEYOUWANTTOREFRESHTO');

badinfluence

May 1 2005, 12:53 PM

here are a few, yo might interested..

META-Refresh
simple html meta refresh and why?

Java scripts
Auto refresh page with timer
Auto-Refresh:fixed timer

PHP
Smart Auto Refresh

for chmod, find out here
actually, there are lot of others, if you will use Google search!!

karlo

May 1 2005, 01:34 PM

It's easy. I suggest you use JavaScript, because it's the modern way

CODE

The code above reloads/refreshes the current page every 2 minutes. Also this code (the old way):

CODE

electriic ink

May 1 2005, 01:55 PM

QUOTE

it's the modern way

It may be the modern way but people still have javascript disabled even if they don't want it to. An annoying virus may come along and disable it for them. There are a lot of idiots out there who don't know how to adjust security settings.

Also it's harder to remember. If I had to do it anyway out of those 3, I'd use php because it will refresh for everyone regardless

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iGuest

Jan 23 2008, 06:57 PM

Replying to Trap FeedBacker

Thats really good. But ending of tag is not improper. :-)

-reply by sangeeta kumar

iGuest

Jan 23 2008, 04:52 AM

you can use this also
How To Autorefresh A Page Every Two Minutes?

//Define on page at top
<?php
$timer = 120;
$title = "Sania Mirza Gallery";
$gid = 120;
$url = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?id='.$gid;
?>
//define in <body> TAG

Echo '<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="'.$timer.'; URL='.$url.'" />';

//Define at user end or on page

Echo " <small>Self Refresh- $timer Secs</small><br/>\and";

Cheers,
Abhi

-reply by Abhijeet

iGuest

Oct 10 2007, 05:28 AM

Yup, agree with electriic ink. And furthermore, the html one is easier and simpler. But there's 1 thing which I am concern about. Does all browsers support that...??

-jumper_twh

snlildude87

May 3 2005, 07:11 PM

I'm going to close this thread before karlo comes and starts bickering, and everyone will start flaming each other. Besides, the problem seems to be solved anyway.

Thread closed.

Mike

May 3 2005, 07:04 PM

QUOTE(karlo @ May 2 2005, 12:06 PM)

Are you really sure that PHP has a refresh? Do you have a proof? Do you have a website that uses that method? Well, some Ad Remover software, like Ad Muncher, sometimes the user disables META Redirect.

That explains why you looked stupid on my site when you said that the shoutbox was ugly, and that the boards had a bad layout. Your shoutbox is really bad, in my opinion. But nonetheless, you said mine wasn't good and you didn't even bother to check it out. If you checked it out, you would have noticed that it refreshes every 5 seconds. And it uses the header() method.

CODE

// What's at the top of my shoutbox.php page:

header('Refresh: 5');

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