Question

I’m creating a link-sharing website and on my index.php page (the page I want to refresh every 5 seconds) there are posts/links that must appear automatically (AJAX refreshing) without the user to refresh by him/herself or pressing F5 the whole time.

How would this work, precisely?

Answer 1

You should use the setInterval javascript function to deal with this issue.

setInterval(callServer, REFRESH_PERIOD_MILLIS);

See:

• some info on ajax Periodic Refresh
• javascript setInterval documentation
• [edit] some good refresh examples, especially without js framework (depending wether you want to use jquery, mototools, another or no framework…)