What I'm trying to do in a nutshell is create a full 5 step interaction between a user and a "host" on my site, without the need for one refresh, as I designed my website for fast-linking with #tag for selecting pages. so if a refresh occurs it's back to the home page 
.
Basically, what I've got.
ajax.js
// Customise those settings
var seconds = 5;
var divid = "timediv";
var url = "boo.php";
////////////////////////////////
//
// Refreshing the DIV
//
////////////////////////////////
function refreshdiv(){
// The XMLHttpRequest object
var xmlHttp;
try{
xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); // Firefox, Opera 8.0+, Safari
}
catch (e){
try{
xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); // Internet Explorer
}
catch (e){
try{
xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
catch (e){
alert("Your browser does not support AJAX.");
return false;
}
}
}
// Timestamp for preventing IE caching the GET request
fetch_unix_timestamp = function()
{
return parseInt(new Date().getTime().toString().substring(0, 10))
}
var timestamp = fetch_unix_timestamp();
var nocacheurl = url+"?t="+timestamp;
// The code...
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function(){
if(xmlHttp.readyState==4){
document.getElementById(divid).innerHTML=xmlHttp.responseText;
setTimeout('refreshdiv()',seconds*1000);
}
}
xmlHttp.open("GET",nocacheurl,true);
xmlHttp.send(null);
}
// Start the refreshing process
var seconds;
window.onload = function startrefresh(){
setTimeout('refreshdiv()',seconds*1000);
}
Then, boo.php
<? /*$query = "SELECT * FROM deposits WHERE user = ? AND completed = 0"; $stmt = $db->prepare($query); $stmt->bindValue(1, $user_data['username']); $stmt->execute(); $fetch = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);*/ // Format time output $str = "It is %a on %b %d, %Y, %X - Time zone: %Z"; // Echo results echo(gmstrftime($str,time())); ?>
^ Above is what I'm trying to achieve, but I cannot even get it to echo the time in my other php form that requires the script.
<script src="ajax.js"></script> <strong>This is the current date and time (updates every 5 seconds):</strong> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- refreshdiv(); // --></script> <div id="timediv"></div>
Can anyone point a beginner in the right direction?
Thanks.
