Thanks, works!
On May 11, 4:06 pm, "Mike Alsup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello, i just recently started using jQuery and I have to say it works
> > great.
> > However I cannot figure out how to constantly (every 5 seconds for
> > example) refresh results by running the query script over and over.
>
> > in Firefox 2.0 this does work, however in Internet Explorer 6.0 (and I
> > think in 7.0 as well) this fails to work.
> > Even after hitting the refresh button on the IE browser the results do
> > not update after the database of which
> > the results are being taken out of has been updated with new data.
>
> > Basically what I do now to constantly refresh the results is:
>
> > setInterval(function(){
>
> > $.get("test.php", function(html){
> > document.getElementById("testdiv").innerHTML = html;
> > });
>
> > },5000);
>
> > This works for Firefox, every 5 seconds the results from the
> > 'test.php' will be output in the 'testdiv'.
> > However when using IE 6, basically what happens is that the results
> > just stay as they are, even after hitting
> > the refresh button. Though, when i 'clear' my IE6 browser's cache, and
> > THEN reload the page, then it does
> > fetch the new results, but after that it doesn't update every 5
> > seconds.
>
> > Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> IE will cache the response to ajax calls, so you need to change the
> url every time. For example:
>
> setInterval(function(){
> var url = "test.php?" + new Date().getTime();
> $.get(url, function(html){
> $("$testdiv").html(html);
> });
>
> },5000);
>
> Alternatively, you could use the $.ajax function like so:
>
> setInterval(function(){
> $.ajax({
> url = "test.php",
> cache: false,
> success: function(html) {
> $("$testdiv").html(html);
> }
> });
>
> },5000);
