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Constantly refresh your PHP-HTML page data



Constantly refresh your PHP-HTML page data

<? 

ECHO "<html><head><title>Constantly refresh your page.</title></head><body>"; 
ECHO "Starting...<br>"; 
flush(); 
sleep(2);   

$i=1; 
while ($i < 4) { // delay   
    ECHO "$i<br>"; // Display the counter. 
    flush(); 
    sleep(1); 
    $i++; 
    } // end 

// Query your database here. I am using sybase calls. 
if (!@sybase_Connect("DATABASENAME, "USERNAME", "PASSWORD")) { 
    echo "<p><font color="red\">Error - Unable to connect to the sybase server. </font></p> \n"; 
    exit; 
    } 
if (!@sybase_select_db("SOMEDATABASE")) { 
    echo "<p><font color=\"red\">Error - unable to access the specific database. </font></p> \n"; 
    exit; 
    } 

$query_get_info = "SELECT FIELDA, FIELDB, FIELDC, FIELDD FROM SOMETABLE ORDER BY FIELDA"; 
$rs = @sybase_query($query_get_info); // execute the query 
if ($rs) { // ok 
    $nrows = 0; 
    $nrows = @sybase_num_rows($rs); 
    echo "<p>Found $nrows row(s). </p> \n"; 
    if ($nrows > 0) { 
        echo "<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" bordercolor=\"#000000\" bgcolor=\"#C0C0C0\" name=\"displaytable\"> \n"; 
        $x = 0;      
        /* display the table column headers */ 
        echo "<tr><th bgcolor=\"#6666FF\">FIELDA</th> \n"; 
        echo "<th bgcolor=\"#6666FF\">FIELDB</th> \n"; 
        echo "<th bgcolor=\"#6666FF\">FIELDC</th> \n"; 
        echo "<th bgcolor=\"#6666FF\">FIELDD</th></tr> \n"; 
        while ($x < $nrows) { // display the information 
            $display_row = @sybase_fetch_row($rs); 
            echo "<tr> \n"; 
            $display_item1 = $display_row[0];   
            echo "<td>$display_item1  </td> \n"; 
            $display_item2 = $display_row[1];    
            echo "<td>$display_item2  </td> \n"; 
            $display_item3 = $display_row[2];    
            echo "<td>$display_item3  </td> \n"; 
            $display_item4 = $display_row[3];    
            echo "<td>$display_item4  </td></tr> \n"; 
            $x++; 
            } // end loop 
           echo "</table><br> \n"; 
        } // end if nrows 
    } // end if rs 

ECHO "<br><b>In 5 seconds this page will refresh.</b><br>\n"; 
flush(); 
sleep(5); 
// Now use javascript to send the page to itself. 
?> 
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> 
history.go(0) 
</SCRIPT> 
<? 
     ECHO "</body></html>"; 
?>