Refresh a table with jQuery/Ajax every 5 seconds - php

Question

So I have a table pulling information from a database and I was wondering how I could make it refresh its information without reloading the whole page.

Answer 1

You'll need a getTable.php page that displays your table, and nothing else: no headers, footers, etc.
PHP (getTable.php) - this can be any server side code (asp, html, etc..)
<?php
echo '<table><tr><td>TEST</td></tr></table>';
?>
Then, in your JS, you can easily refresh the table by using the load() method:
HTML
<div id="tableHolder"></div>
JS
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
refreshTable();
});
function refreshTable(){
$('#tableHolder').load('getTable.php', function(){
setTimeout(refreshTable, 5000);
});
}
</script>

Answer 2

Use ajax, following example is in jQuery:
$(function() {
var prevAjaxReturned = true;
var xhr = null;
setInterval(function() {
if( prevAjaxReturned ) {
prevAjaxReturned = false;
} else if( xhr ) {
xhr.abort( );
}
xhr = $.ajax({
type: "GET",
data: "v1="+v1+"&v2="+v2,
url: "location/of/server/script.php",
success: function(html) {
// html is a string of all output of the server script.
$("#element").html(html);
prevAjaxReturned = true;
}
});
}, 5000);
});
The success function assumes that your server script outputs the html that you want to replace in the element with id 'element'.

Answer 3

You should have a page that return the information and pull data using Ajax / jQuery.
<div class="result"></div>
setInterval(function() {
$.get('table.php', function(data) {
$('#result').html(data);
});
}, 5000);

Answer 4

Here is another option for you to use. This solution is using an IIFE which is preferred over setInterval. You can read more about IIFE at the link above.
JAVASCRIPT:
var $results = $('#results'),
loadInterval = 5000;
(function loader() {
$.get('script.php', function(html){
$results.hide(200, function() {
$results.empty();
$results.html(html);
$results.show(200, function() {
setTimeout(loader, loadInterval);
});
});
});
})();
HTML:
<div id="results"></div>

Answer 5

setTimeout(function(){
jqueryFunction(Args);
},100);
will work...
100 = 100 milliseconds

Answer 6

The following works with JQuery Datatables 1.10
`var tableName;
//Set AJAX Refresh interval.
$(function() {
setReloadInterval(10); //Refresh every 10 seconds.
}
//Because function takes seconds we * 1000 to convert seconds to milliseconds.
function setReloadInterval(reloadTime) {
if(reloadTime > 0)
internalId = setInterval("reloadTable()", (reloadTime * 1000);
}
//Auto Refresh JQuery DataTable
function reloadTable() {
tableName.ajax.reload();
}
//Table defined...
$(document).ready(function () {
tableName = $('#tableName').DataTable({
"sAjaxSource": "/someUrl",
});`