Re: Refreshing php page every 5 secs WHILE SAVING INFORMATION

<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(at)student(dot)cs(dot)ucc(dot)ie richie_dug(at)yahoo(dot)com
> Homepage : http://student.cs.ucc.ie/01/dugganr/index.html
>
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