Making something change before your eyes not on page load.

[11Tami]

Hi I am having something change on the minute using the following php minute command.

$getfile = date("i");

Thing is it only changes on page load not automatically. How to make it change automatically? Please let me know, thank you very much.

[JasonLewis]

that would be a cron job or using javascript as well wouldnt it.

[btherl]

You can change things without loading the page using javascript.  If you need to fetch data from php without reloading the page, you can look into AJAX (it's a big topic)

[11Tami]

Anybody know how  to do this with javascript? I know how to make my page refresh using javascript but would only like the script itelf to change not the whole page so its less intrusive. Can I use javascript along with php in the php script?

[JasonLewis]

i am pretty sure it is possible with the help of AJAX. because all you would want is a timer that counts down, when it reaches zero run a piece of php code then reset the counter and loop through it again.

[nick89]

You can either do a real-time sync with ajax, or you could write a javascript script to automatically increment from the starting datetime.

[11Tami]

nick89 you still there? What do you mean by start with the datetime with javascript?