Automatically reloading a page while passing variables

Can you refresh a page after a certain amount of time and pass some vars?

[sawatkins]

Hello all,

Like the title says, I'm wondering the feasibility of reloading a page after a certain amount of time and passing some variables when it reloads. At that point, I'll be using PHP to collect the vars.

Hope all that was clear. Thanks in advance.

[httpwebwitch]

yes - you can set a timer with setTimeout() [msdn2.microsoft.com], and reload the page with a querystring appended to the URL.

However it sounds to me like you should be looking at an AJAX Pattern [ajaxpatterns.org] instead.

[sawatkins]

You are SO right about using AJAX for this app. Unfortunately, that's not in the cards at this point, as the program is fully developed, and I don't have the time and resources to rewrite it.

So ... my Javascript is about as poor as I am. Can anyone help me out and throw me a bone on how exactly to use setTimeout() and reload a page with a querystring appended to the URL?

[Demaestro]

well to reload the page with Js you would call this

window.location = '/page_name?variable1=hello&variable2=world';

I also think this will work:
self.parent.location = '/page_name?variable1=hello&variable2=world';

All you need is to nest that code into a timer and set it to fire after the timer runs out.

I think like this will work

window.setTimeout("self.parent.location = '/page_name?variable1=hello&variable2=world'", 1000);

[edited by: Demaestro at 8:57 pm (utc) on April 24, 2008]