How do I auto refresh HTML page every hour?

Question

I want to refresh an HTML page every hour automatically in the background. I was thinking about using PHP but I'm not sure what if that's possible.

This is all the I have:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3600" >

But this doesn't refresh automatically in the background. How can I do this? If this is possible in PHP and a cron job please let me know (with code preferably). Thank you.

_"automatically in the background"_ ? What do you mean by that ? — Rayon, May 27 '16 at 11:09
@Rayon automatically as in completely automatically. I just want to have to set it up and everyday it should refresh the HTML page every hour. — Ron, May 27 '16 at 11:12
So basically your html page is cached somewhere and you want to set a new page every hour ? — abhinsit, May 27 '16 at 11:12

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '16 at 11:09

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You can use javascript setInterval();

<script>
 $(document).ready(function(){
    setInterval(function(){ reload_page(); },60*60000);
 });

 function reload_page()
 {
    window.location.reload(true);
 }
</script>

answered May 27 '16 at 11:09

Dhara Parmar

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`setTimeout` will work just as good because the whole page is reloaded anyways. – Pierre Mar 10 '23 at 05:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 27 '16 at 11:08

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Try this :

<?php
    $page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
     $sec = "3600";
?>
<html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="<?php echo $sec?>;URL='<?php echo $page?>'">

answered May 27 '16 at 11:08

chandresh_cool

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Refer to this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/19807718/6390490

Refresh document every 300 seconds using HTML Meta tag

EDIT: for background you have to use ajax something like this https://stackoverflow.com/a/25446696/6390490

function loadlink(){
   $('#links').load('test.php',function () {
     $(this).unwrap();
});
}

 loadlink(); // This will run on page load
 setInterval(function(){
 loadlink() // this will run after every 5 seconds
}, 5000);

for server side refreshing use

 header("Refresh: 300;url='http://thepage.com/example'");//set time here as per your need

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered May 27 '16 at 11:15

smarttechy

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but doesn't the website have to open for this to work? – Ron May 27 '16 at 11:36
for server side auto refreshing you can use header("Refresh: 300;url='http://thepage.com/example'"); – smarttechy May 27 '16 at 11:40
alright, so if I use that (the server side PHP) and try to run it as a cron job will it work? – Ron May 29 '16 at 14:11
its working for me why don't u try and test it and can tell your experience in comments – smarttechy May 30 '16 at 04:20
I used tried using the server side script (I only used that) and ran it as a cron job (in Godaddy). It didn't work. Do I have to use both the server side and client side code together? Thanks for your help. @smarttechy – Ron May 30 '16 at 11:46
Hi, I am using Server Side Scripting for my callback notification sections header("Refresh:10;url='https://domain/admin/callback.php'"); but the all the pages are redirecting to same page which I have given in URL section. Please help me out. Thank you. – Akash M Mar 03 '18 at 11:36

How do I auto refresh HTML page every hour?

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