Question

My html page fires off 2 php scripts, one to perform a task and another to poll a log file and show results on the html page. After the ‘updatestock.php’ has finished how do I stop the getStatus() process?

  <script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        startProcess();
        getStatus();

    });

    function startProcess() {

      $("#done").load('updatestock.php');

    }

    function getStatus() {

      $("#status").load('getstatus.php');
        setTimeout("getStatus()",2000);

    }

    </script>

Answer 1

var stopProcess = false;


function startProcess() {

    $("#done").load('updatestock.php', function() {

        stopProcess  = true;

    });

}

function getStatus() {

    if ( stopProcess){
        return false;
    }

    $("#status").load('getstatus.php');
    setTimeout("getStatus()",2000);

}