<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=id VALUE=<?php echo $id; ?>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Richie wrote: > Hi > > I have a php page that I need to be rereshed every 5 seconds to make sure > that the information displayed is up to date. I tried the Refresh Meta > tag : > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT=5> > > which worked OK (in Explorer, not in Netscape?? but thats another issue!) > BUT it doesn't work properly to my needs. You see suppose the page that I > want refreshed is called bidForHouse.php, well bid.php contains a <FORM> > which passes in a variable $id to bidForHouse.php, it works grand the > first time it loads up, i.e. it has obtained what the value of $id is and > can act accordingly but when the refresh comes into operation it is like > the value of $id got lost and is set to null, thats my problem! > > Any ideas on how to save the value of $id before refreshing? > > Thanks a million, I hope one day that I might be able to contribute to > this page but I can't see it happening for at least a few years, I have a > long way to go! > > Richie > > > ========================================================= > Richie Duggan > Computer Science IV > University College Cork > Eamil : dugganr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx richie_dug@xxxxxxxxx > Homepage : http://student.cs.ucc.ie/01/dugganr/index.html > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
