| Re: Is there a way to distinguish an auto-refresh from a manual page load? [message #177183 is a reply to message #177155] |
Sat, 25 February 2012 12:56   |
bill
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On 2/24/2012 8:26 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Álvaro G. Vicario wrote:
>> El 22/02/2012 23:26, The Natural Philosopher escribió/wrote:
>>> Cos I want to make a page slightly different depending...
>>> ..I cant think of any parameter I might pass that would be
>>> affected by
>>> autorefersh or not tho.
>>>
>>> Maybe javsacript and a timer would enable one?
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>> The "auto-refresh" concept implies some previous work on your
>> side. It'd help a lot to know what's the code you wrote to
>> accomplish it (JavaScript, <meta> tag or whatever). Whatever, I
>> have the impression that it'd help even more to know the
>> problem you want to fix rather than just the solution you
>> figured out.
>>
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> Well I used a meta tag so that the client refreshes in case new
> info has come in.
>
> However in this case the client can also POST new information,
> and I don't want it POSTING the same information every 5 minutes
> or whatever.
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> The idea is to construct a not very real time view (5 minute
> granularity is good enough) on some data, some of which the user
> can change.
>
> I haven't tested it to see if a refresh is actually different
> from a submit.
UNTESTED:
On the original submit, attach a parameter with a random number.
Keep the sequence number in your database. On every invocation
of the php script, check the number in the database. If it is
the same as last time, it is a refresh.
bill
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