Question

I will be creating a JQuery slide show, but need the page to refresh every 5 minutes to change the content.

I know I can do this via some Javascript, but this can be altered on the client side to avoid page refreshes. Is there a way for the server to timeout a page and force a refresh?

Answer 1

In addition to a javascript reload, you can send a refresh header:

header("Refresh: 300;url='http://thepage.com/example'");

The browser will redirect after 300 seconds regardless of javascript. It can be disabled in configuration of the browser though, but it’s not commonly disabled.