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Anonymous - Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:16 am
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Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows how to refresh a page and how to refresh a table, if that is possible. I know this is very little information, but I'm at school, and I'm not really supposed to be doing this. So if you have questions, please ask. Thanks.

Smong - Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:04 pm
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Refresh a page/table? As in making the user click the refresh button?

To change just part of the page you can enclose the table in a named tag and then use javascript to change the innerHTML property.

CypherJF - Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:05 pm
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You can use META tags to refresh a page; Javascript to refresh the page; or using Javascript + XML = AJAX to make a dynamically updated page without refreshing.

Contempt+ - Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:50 pm
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Sorry this is a late reply.

I had a short post because my teacher started to keep a close eye on me.

What I meant to say was to have the page automatically refresh either itself, or a table. So basically what Cypher said. Any ideas other than using javascript of AJAX?

CypherJF - Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:02 pm
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HTML is static without help of DOM (utilizing javascript); so if you don't want to go w/ javascript, meta tag for refreshing is the only shot?

BDwinsAlt - Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:12 am
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Yea i've always used META to refresh my pages.
:)

Donkano - Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:18 pm
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Meta tags are the worst. Users can disable them, use the following code:

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<?php
header("location: <Input URL Location Here>");
exit();
?>

Make sure the script ends or there can be data loss if the user is sent with any form of data.

Edit:
To get the currently viewed page, use:

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<?php
$Current_Page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
?>

CypherJF - Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:35 pm
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Location only forwards the browser to the new URL but doesn't really solve the issue of "refreshing" the new page on a specific time interval, which is what I assumed is what he wants.

Donkano - Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:48 pm
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If it is a set timer, I would reccommend using JavaScript. There is less people who disable JavaScript than there are people who disable meta tags.

CypherJF - Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:21 pm
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I wouldn't use Javascript; I'm using a JS timer, it appears that Firefox keeps the JS timer in memory (in cache) running and doesn't restart it. :/ So when they visit the page by hitting back or w/e, the timer has thrown/activated accordingly. Has anyone else had this issue?

Cyan~Fire - Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:34 pm
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Disabling meta tags? WTF are you talking about, Donkano?

Use the meta tag. This situation is what this one was created for.