Screen Re-drawing

[AndyD]

When displaying a list of records from the database, I have a page that includes some graphics. Obviously, when the PHP code calls itself, it re-draws the screen, which looks messy and can be slow.

I assume I need to use a variable that gets tested to see if the routine is calling itself?

As the list of records is diplayed in a table, does this make things more complicated? Can the IF statement include a section of the table, and then display the list of records and then exclude the remainder of the table?

Is there a trick to achieving the list update without re-drawing the graphics or should I be looking to use Frames?

Does this make sense?

Andy.

[webadept]

The quick fix for this might be an IFRAME, but be warned that they don't work with some (most) Mac browsers.