Increase value every x minutes

[anthill]

Hi

I don't know if i'm going about this the wrong way. I'm trying to increase a number by a value every so many minutes, e.g.

Number = 10050

so after 10 mins the number increases by 10

Number 10 mins later = 10060
Number 20 mins later = 10070

and so on, i'm not sure where to start, can anyone help?

Thanks

[Norman_Graham]

Hi Anthill

How can this work? When a browser calls a page from the server, the page is served. Job finished. If you want the page to refresh, you have to use JavaScript. Fine. So User Clueless calls your page and the number is at 10050. Javascript refreshes after, say, 90 seconds. So the script starts again ... and the number is again at 10050.

The number will never increment - unless you invent code which takes more than 10 minutes to serve and change the time-out in php.ini to some whopping value.

You could only do this with JavaScript - don't ask me how, but I believe a simple refresh routine should be possible. I don't know a huge number of users who sit and do nothing for 10 minutes while staring at a web page. My DSL router kills the connection after 10 minutes of inactivity and that's after I doubled the default factory setting of 5 minutes. I suspect your visitors will never witness the number being incremented.

Next question: what is it you actually want to do?

Norm

[anthill]

Thanks Norman you've given me something to think about. I forgot about javascript to be honest, and agree this would be the favourable method.

Thanks