Question

I’m probably tired for staring at this for too long,
maybe someone can clear this up for me:

//scripts in whispers are setup this way.
var something = function(){
    setInterval(function1,1000);
    setInterval(function2,1000);
    blah .. blah...
}

//function2 is the same as this one
var function1 = function(){
   ajax to do something on server
   blah...
   blah...
}

//button to stop things from running anymore
$('.stop').live('click',function(){
  clearInterval(function1);
  clearInterval(function2);
  return false;
}

I should be able to stop function1 and/or 2 from running after
clicking the button yeah? For some reason – the ajax calls within the
two functions keep running and pinging the server.

Answer 1

clearInterval does not take a function as a parameter, it takes an ID returned by setInterval.

var theID = setInterval(something,1000);

clearInterval(theID);