Re: auto-refresh dynamic images

From: Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:51:32 +0000
Subject: Re: auto-refresh dynamic images
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> Erik Myllymaki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am generating some jpegs dynamically from a weatherstation program and > > FTPing them to my webserver every 5 minutes. How do I get the PHP3 page to > > force the images to be uploaded to the client's browser every time the page > > is reviewed instead of getting the out of date images from cache? > > > > Also, how do I get the page to refresh at a particular interval AND refresh > > the jpegs? For instance if someone wants to leave thee page displayed ffor a > > while and just have it refresh every 5 minutes to show the new images and > > the coresponding change in weather? > > > > <METAs...> work only for the text, NOT the jpegs. Will using the header() > > function work for the images as well as text? > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > Call image with something like image.jpg?$something, where something could be > time(); > HTH > > Bojan Thanks, this worked like a charm. Combined with: <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="30;URL==<?php echo $PHPSELF; ?>" I get the functionality I was looking for.

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