[RESOLVED] repeat command after delay?

LordRogaine

I have a page where I have an include(). This include calls up images to be displayed on the page. The images will always be different depending on when you call up the images. Is it possible to call the include("whatever_page.php"); to repeat itself after a delay of perhaps ten seconds. I've been experimenting with sleep(10) and reloading the page but it's not giving me the effect I want. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

matt72

I think javascript would be the way to do it, php is not really meant to be kept running like that.

<body onload=setTimeout("location.href='your_page.php'",10000)>

That'll reload the page after 10 seconds (10k milliseconds).

LordRogaine

Thanks. Quick question. Do I have to put this as part of the body tag or can I just put it within the body tags and script tags?

Jasp182

LordRogaine wrote:
Thanks. Quick question. Do I have to put this as part of the body tag or can I just put it within the body tags and script tags?

yeah...you can just do something like this:

<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout("location.href='your_page.php'",10000);
</script>

<body onload="reloadTimer()">
<script type="text/javascript">
function reloadTimer()
{
setTimeout("location.href='your_page.php'",10000)
}
</script>

matt72

Yeah, you can also put it in script tags in the body. It's my understanding that if you do this, it'll delay 10 seconds from when that particular script tag reaches the browse, instead 10 seconds from when the page finishes loading.

LordRogaine

I've got it where it the script is working. Only thing is, is that it's working more as a redirect to another page instead of include() where I'm bringing in another page to be a part of the first page. I hope I explained that properly.

Jasp182

LordRogaine wrote:
I've got it where it the script is working. Only thing is, is that it's working more as a redirect to another page instead of include() where I'm bringing in another page to be a part of the first page. I hope I explained that properly.

you might want to elaborate on that last part. do you want only a part of the page to refresh, or are you not getting the desired result when the page refreshes? the more info the better.

matt72

You need to redirect the page to itself and have it reload with a new image. Or if that's not what you want you could look at using an iframe.

Jasp182

matt72 wrote:
You need to redirect the page to itself and have it reload with a new image. Or if that's not what you want you could look at using an iframe.

* ajax

LordRogaine

I did a redirect to the page itself. Works perfectly. Thanks everyone!