Help with a refresh issue

[l3ackdraft]

I need to refresh the page on a regular basis, and when the page refreshes I need to the page to check the MySQL database for any new changes to the table.

Now I know using javascript to refresh the page will work, and thats what i have been using, but I am looking for something that doesn't produce such a hard refresh.

does anyone have a solution using javascript that will run the javascript funtion to refresh it self and then check the database without actually reloading the entire page.

every time the page reloads it creates a clicking in my speakers.

maybe something for a silent page refresh or soft reload.

any help would greatly be appreciated

[altexis]

you could use a frame for this job
and if you don't like the idea of those big frames you could use <IFRAME>

<IFRAME> is a fairly new HTML tag ... you can make a small window in your page, say 100x100 pixels and refresh it ever 5 milisecs with no flicker at all 🙂🙂

[adrian_quah]

Pls check whether the <IFRAME> tag is allowed by Netscape cos i'm not too sure browsers other than IE support it.

[Psyche]

I'm not sure that this will work but also try with <meta> tags.

[l3ackdraft]

I apoligize, but I failed to mention that if the user closes the page, an onUnload event occurs.

however on refresh the page onUnload event becomes true.

I guess I would need a solution so that the onUnload event does not occur unless the page was truly closed.

I did want to try to avoid using frames as much as possible.