Force page to refresh...

New Member Joined: Dec 05, 2005 Posts: 24

I have an odd problem. I am using an FLV player that is standalone and I am calling it using an iframe in my nuke site.

My issue is that unless I right click inside the iframe and click REFRESH, the page does not show my changes. I have tried a couple ways to force it to refresh but I am not familiar enough with php to know.

The page is located at

http://spanish.christophercraft.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=5

The iframe code calls the main player page, which is a php file.

Can anyone tell me how? I tried something in codecomments in my php file, but it didn't work.

Thanks!

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Why don't you d/l my Who-is-Where script and see how I handle it?

registered · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:53 pm

Are you looking for a code solution to refresh the window/frame?

Or do you mean the iframe itself isn't refreshing when you refresh the page? It could be your browser is caching the page. In which case, you can do a hard refresh for it to reload the entire page - CTRL+Refresh

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:09 am

When I refresh the page, it doesn't refresh the iframe. So I have stale content unless I right click and hit refresh. I did put a button on it but I would prefer that it not get cached at all.

Inside the iframe is a php page, and I tried pragma and nocache stuff but it didn't work. My lack of knowledge in php is astounding.

Thanks for the help!

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:24 am

How are you refreshing the page?

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:42 am

Here is the sad attempts to prevent caching in the code for my player.php file, which is the basis for the flv video page I am using. You can see my sad attempt at a META tag that doesn't work and then below the styles you can see my sad little refresh button.

Code:

header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);

Code:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">

Code:

<FORM><font face=verdana size=1><INPUT TYPE="button" onClick="history.go(0)" VALUE="Refresh">


</FORM>

I took some of the code out because it fussed at me.

The link to the page itself (if it works for you) is...

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Thanks!

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:54 am

So, to be sure I/We understand, you have a Main page with an IFRAME block in it, correct? You have a button to refresh the page? When the button is pressed, you want the IFRAME content refreshed too?

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:12 am

The button is within the iframe, so it's included in my player.php file which is called using the iframe code.

What I want is that each time the link it clicked (the page that calls the iframe is a part of my content area) it loads a fresh copy of the player.php file.

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:26 am

I went to your content area and I clicked the last link. I'm sorry but I'm not understanding or seeing the issue.

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:29 am

You'll see the issue as soon as I update the video files. If I add one, take one away, etc. it does not show up for the end user unless they click the refresh button. I was hoping for an automatic way. I am dealing with sixth graders and they tend to give up easily.