Continuous Refresh

nem5009 · Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 1

I'm still relatively new to html.

So what I have currently is a page that loads a "window" and everything outside the window. then once ?postview=true it loads all the contents within the window. It refreshes every 5 seconds. I learned this from a pretty simple online tutorial. But then once I tried expanding on it's utility, my knowledge isn't proving enough.

when a button within the window is pressed, I want it to load a new form. As you can imagine this presents a problem, because it will not wait for them to input their data it will give them until the current refresh expires, then it will reload the list from the database.

I would like to solve it one of two ways:

1) create the form within the refreshing "window," but stop the refresh timer.
2) create the form in the postview outside the "window"

I think the second option would probably be better cause the list would continue to stay current, but I think this might be very complicated with my limited knowledge of the postview structure.

NOTE: my code model uses a lot of php, so I know it goes outside the scope of html, but if you guys know anyway to stop a refresh timer or how to pass variables through a refresh it might help me out.

here's a high level outline of my code as it stands:

Richard_zhou · Joined: 09 Jul 2009 Posts: 17 Location: Shenzhen,China

keep updated is better for website and search engine, but if you refresh so fast, it's looks bad for search engine, maybe it's helpful for site function.

fifa0864 · Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 2

Continuous Refresh is not recommeneded at all.