Re: Refreshing php page every 5 secs WHILE SAVING INFORMATION

I'd think you'd need to do something with Sessions to keep track of that
value.  So that way when the page reloads, it just pulls the value out of
the appropriate session variable.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richie" <dugganr@student.cs.ucc.ie>
To: <pgsql-php@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: [PHP] Refreshing php page every 5 secs WHILE SAVING INFORMATION


> Hi
>
> I have a php page that I need to be rereshed every 5 seconds to make sure
> that the information displayed is up to date. I tried the Refresh Meta
> tag :
>       <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT=5>
>
> which worked OK (in Explorer, not in Netscape?? but thats another issue!)
> BUT it doesn't work properly to my needs. You see suppose the page that I
> want refreshed is called bidForHouse.php, well bid.php contains a <FORM>
> which passes in a variable $id to bidForHouse.php, it works grand the
> first time it loads up, i.e. it has obtained what the value of $id is and
> can act accordingly but when the refresh comes into operation it is like
> the value of $id got lost and is set to null, thats my problem!
>
> Any ideas on how to save the value of $id before refreshing?
>
> Thanks a million, I hope one day that I might be able to contribute to
> this page but I can't see it happening for at least a few years, I have a
> long way to go!
>
> Richie
>
>
> =========================================================
> Richie Duggan
> Computer Science IV
> University College Cork
> Eamil : dugganr@student.cs.ucc.ie   richie_dug@yahoo.com
> Homepage : http://student.cs.ucc.ie/01/dugganr/index.html
>
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