Automatic refresh of screen.

[Bob]

I have a monitor in a public place and I want the page to automatically
refresh, approximately every 5 minutes.

What is the best way to do this?

It is a .php page accessing a mysql database.

Thanks

[Philip Ronan]

Bob wrote:

I have a monitor in a public place and I want the page to automatically
refresh, approximately every 5 minutes.

What is the best way to do this?

It is a .php page accessing a mysql database.

Thanks

Just plant this in the HEAD section of the HTML output:

<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="300;http://dom.ain/path/to/sript.php">

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[Philip Ronan]

Philip Ronan wrote:

<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="300;http://dom.ain/path/to/sript.php">

Oops, typo.

Should be ... content="300;url=http://dom.ain/path/to/script.php">
^^^^ ^

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[SpoonfulofTactic]

Of course, you can use any of the "http-equiv" meta-tags as Headers
instead:

<?php header("Refresh: 300;url=http://whatever"); ?>

[Philip Ronan]

Sp**************@gmail.com wrote:

Of course, you can use any of the "http-equiv" meta-tags as Headers
instead:

<?php header("Refresh: 300;url=http://whatever"); ?>

I wouldn't do that. The HTTP specifications don't actually define a
"Refresh" header; this is just a hack supported in the client software.

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[Mike Willbanks]

Bob,

Depending on the platform, you can use a javascript refresh also with a
meta refresh (the meta refresh was already stated). The reason for
doing both is just incase that certain things are not working as they
are supposed to.

As client software depends on the implementation. You might as well use
both. Because if the stop button is hit or somehow forced you can loop
the javascript for every n seconds.

Mike