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How do you refresh page on entry? 2
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BillyRayPreachersSon
Programmer
You'd have to use a cookie-based solution IMHO... otherwise every time the page refreshed, it would refresh itself again (because it had just refreshed, and the refresh code would kick in, etc etc ad infinitum).
Dan
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what about a meta-tag refresh?
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BillyRayPreachersSon
Programmer
A meta refresh would not work, unless you wrote it out dynamically (otherwise you would suffer from the problem I described above).
And if you have scripting enabled to write the meta tag out, why not just use "document.location=" instead?
Dan
The answers you get are only as good as the information you give!
well...
you could use a meta-refresh for the five minute aspect.
and you could have onload=window.location=reloadPage()
and then in reloadPage() test for an occurrance of "?" in the url. if there is no "?", window.location = this.html?r or something.
ugly as sin, but it would work.
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you could use a meta-refresh for the five minute aspect.
and you could have onload=window.location=reloadPage()
and then in reloadPage() test for an occurrance of "?" in the url. if there is no "?", window.location = this.html?r or something.
ugly as sin, but it would work.
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trollacious
Programmer
If you have any graphics on the page, and someone connects with a slow dialup connection, they'll never get to see the whole page load. As well, if you reload the page every 5 seconds, what's going to happen when someone tries to scroll down and see what's at the bottom of the page? Will they ever be able to do that? Sounds like a recipe to keep people away from your website. If you have one item that you want to refresh, why not put it in an iframe and just refresh that as you wish (though if it takes more than 5 seconds to reload, the viewer will never be able to see the information there)?
Lee
Lee
because of bad coding, most likely.
no offense.
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no offense.
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BillyRayPreachersSon
Programmer
CLFlaVa,
You've got a good point there. Adding a parameter to the URL would be another way of achieveing this without the use of cookies.
Dan
If you just want to refresh a certain part of your web page, the best way to do it would probably be to either use an IFrame like Lee suggest or use the XMLHTTP object to fetch the page behind the scenes and update the content on the page. Much less blinking that way.
Adam
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That's just an Idea but you can try something like this (I didn't try it so there may still errors):
<HTML>
<SCRIPT language = "javascript">
var timeIsOut = false;
function reloadPage(){
var newLocation = window.location + '?reloaded=true';
if(!reloaded || timeIsOut)
window.location = newLocation;
else
setTimeout('reloadPage()', 5 * 60);
timeIsOut = true;
}
</SCRIPT>
<BODY onLoad = "javascript:reloadPage();">
...
</BODY>
</HTML>
So.. not sure that's correct and not sure that's what you wanted. You do not need to use cookie. Just When you are refreshing the page just indicates that you have already done it with a variable that you gives with the url (reloaded in my example). The timeIsOut variable indicates that the next time the reloadPage function is called (after five minuts because of the setTimeout instruction) it will reload the page even if the reloaded variable is true
Hope this will help you
<HTML>
<SCRIPT language = "javascript">
var timeIsOut = false;
function reloadPage(){
var newLocation = window.location + '?reloaded=true';
if(!reloaded || timeIsOut)
window.location = newLocation;
else
setTimeout('reloadPage()', 5 * 60);
timeIsOut = true;
}
</SCRIPT>
<BODY onLoad = "javascript:reloadPage();">
...
</BODY>
</HTML>
So.. not sure that's correct and not sure that's what you wanted. You do not need to use cookie. Just When you are refreshing the page just indicates that you have already done it with a variable that you gives with the url (reloaded in my example). The timeIsOut variable indicates that the next time the reloadPage function is called (after five minuts because of the setTimeout instruction) it will reload the page even if the reloaded variable is true
Hope this will help you
i like when people don't read previous answers before posting.
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trollacious
Programmer
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Lee
#Lee
this is ludicrosity! you guys are awesome!
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I've put together a solution in the past that used an extra parameter (like a query string). It required the user to have javascript installed, because onload I would check the location to see if there was a '?' in there... if not... redirect to the same page with a parameter.
Now... unlike the other solutions here... I use the word parameter.
Jeff
Now... unlike the other solutions here... I use the word parameter.
Jeff
have you considered a meta-refresh?
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