Question

This is what i am trying to accomplish: when the last slide is reached fadeOut last slide and then fadeIn first slide, and then clearInterval (everything works with this part). Now my problem is that i want to setInterval again if it doesn’t exists but I don’t know how to make it happen:(
I have tried to solve this with if statment but then my script doesn’t work at all!
So how can I RESTART my interval again? THANK YOU!!
Without if statement like this it’s working fine:

if(!intervalID){
    intervalID = setInterval(animate,5000);
}    

This is what I have so far:

$(document).ready(function() {
  /*check if intervalID don't exists messes UP!!*/
  if (!intervalID) {
    intervalID = setInterval(animate, 5000);
  }

  //Hide everything except first slide and controls

  $('.slidewrap div:not(.slidewrap div:first,.slidewrap .slide_controls)').hide();

  var animate = function() {

    /*if .pagination_active is last removeClass and addClass to .pagination_active 
             first li tag*/

    if ($('.pagination_active').is($('.slide_controls ul li:last'))) {
      $('.pagination_active').removeClass('pagination_active');
      $('.slide_controls ul li:first').addClass('pagination_active');
    } else {
      $('.pagination_active').removeClass('pagination_active').next().addClass('pagination_active');
    }

    /*if div.active is last fadeOut and add .active class 
             to the first div and fadeIn FIRST div then CLEAR INTERVAL and set intervalID to zero */

    if ($('.active').is($('.slidewrap div:last'))) {
      $('.active').fadeOut(1000).removeClass('active');
      $('.slidewrap div:first').addClass('active').fadeIn(1000, function() {
        clearInterval(intervalID);
        intervalID = 0;

      });
    }

    //OR .active fadeOut and next div fadeIn
    else {
      $('.active').fadeOut(1000).next().fadeIn(1000, function() {
        $('.slidewrap div.active').removeClass('active').next('div').addClass('active');

      });
    }

  }

  var intervalID;
  intervalID = setInterval(animate, 3000);

});

Answer 1

After clear an interval you need to start it again with setInterval().

It would be better to make function for your setInterval()

var intervalID = null;

function intervalManager(flag, animate, time) {
   if(flag)
     intervalID =  setInterval(animate, time);
   else
     clearInterval(intervalID);
}

Here flag is a boolean variable with value true/ false. true will execute setInterval() and false will clearInterval();

Now you can use above function as you need.

For example:

intervalManager(true, animate, 300);  // for setInterval

intervalManager(false);  // for clearInterval