refresh

[badabing]

I have a page that takes a random image from a database.
then I have a template which displays the image and all the info taken from the database.
I want to add a "next image" button, so when u press it it loads another random image.

what is the best way to do this?
I thought about doing an <a href="...">
to the same page so that it would reload... but is there a more efficient way of doing it than reloading everything??? or at least a refresh function in PHP

[rgermain]

No matter what you end up doing you are going to have to reload the page. I guess you could frame out the page and just have the portion you want to changed to reload. PHP is a server side language. It has to parse the information on the server before it can send it down to the client. So in order for the information to change it would need to be reparsed and resent down to the client.

[tommynanda]

I would suggest refreshing image than entire page...

something like:

<img src="generateimage.php" name="randimg">

generateimage.php should pick random image from data base and display it as image using header("content: image/png") functions

and at Next Image button

<a href="Javascript: document.getElementById('randimg').src='generateimage.php';">

This should work If you know wat I mean

Good Luck
TommYNandA

[badabing]

If I had to write the code myself thats what i would have done. but i'm just updating it, and the people who wrote it before me have no idea what classes are and use about 5 functions in the whole code!!!

so now i'm stuck with refreshing the whole page ... or rewriting the code!