Refresh a PHP page for every predefined seconds

Question

I would like to load/refresh a particular page for every 10 secs to view updated data\'s fetched from Database.

I used META for doing it

Answer 1

For the client, there's really no difference between all the methods you mentioned. The only difference I can find is that using doesn't require javascript, like other solutions do, but nowadays everybody has javascript anyway.

The big difference, to me, is in the server usage. If you have 100 users refreshing every 10 seconds, that's already about 10 reqs/sec. Depending on the logic you have to generate the page (which is likely dinamic), this may cause the server usage to skyrocket. Make sure you're careful about that.