jquery “everyTime” function

Question

I\'m trying to refresh my recent list every 5 seconds. I was looking at ajax and found jquery.

I found a function known as \"everyTime\"

This is what I have

Answer 1

5s is neither an integer or a string, and so it's an invalid input. To achieve the desired behavior you can use an integer number of milliseconds:

$(document).everyTime(5000, function(i) {
  <?php include "recent.php";?>
}, 0);

or a string indicating the interval:

$(document).everyTime('5s', function(i) {
  <?php include "recent.php";?>
}, 0);

(here's a reference)

Answer 2

everyTime seems to be a jQuery plugin that has a lot of functionality you're not using here. For what you're doing, you can just use setInterval thus:

setInterval(function() {
    // refresh list
}, 5000)

where the second parameter is the number of milliseconds.

Note on everyTime

If you really want to use everyTime, you'll need to make your first parameter a string, that is:

$(document).everyTime("5s", function(i) { }, 0);

Note the quotes around the 5s. You'll also need to include the appropriate javascript file for the plugin (not just for jQuery) at the top, i.e.

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.timers.js"></script> 

Answer 3

You can use everyTime plugin with jQuery Ajax like this:

var j = jQuery.noConflict();
j(document).ready(function()
{
    j(".refresh").everyTime(1000,function(i){
        j.ajax({
          url: "refresh.php",
          cache: false,
          success: function(html){
            j(".refresh").html(html);
          }
        })
    })

});

Late answer. Hope this will help users researching on similar functions.