This is usually handled by the browser automatically. (Nobody likes to see
out of date content when browsing the web). Users can set their browser
settings to check for new things once per session, every time, or never (or
some variation of these). Most users use once per session. Otherwise, a
complete reload can be forced on many browsers (NS and IE at least) by
holding shift and clicking reload.
Joseph
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ide, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:36 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [PHP] PHP + javascript
>
>
>
> Hi -
>
> I want to use javascript to validate some fields on a form.
> The javascript code will take the value the user typed
> into the form and search for it in an array. If the value
> is found in the array, then the value is ok, otherwise
> an alert() message will be displayed.
>
> The amount of data in the array is quite large.
>
> The data in the array rarely changes.
>
> I want to avoid transferring the array from the web server
> to the client's web browser every time the user loads the
> form. I put the array in a file called "myarray.js":
>
> $ cat myarray.js
> var MyArray = new Array(
> "value 1",
> "value 2",
> <many lines snipped>
> "value 789",
> "value 790"
> );
> $
>
> Then, I put the following line in the php script that generates the form:
>
> <script language="JavaScript" src="myarray.js"></script>
>
> By examining Apache's access_log, I see that "myarray.js" is
> transferred to the user's web browser once when the form is first
> displayed, and for subsequent uses of the form, the web browser
> uses the myarray.js that is cached, so that the array does not
> have to be transferred from the web server to the client computer
> every time the user uses the form.
>
> So, if the data in the array contained in myarray.js _does_ need
> to be changed, I need some way of signaling the user's web browser
> that it needs to transfer the updated myarray.js file from the web
> server. How do I do this?
>
> The only way I know to do this is to instruct the users to clear their
> web browser cache, which will force the web browser to transfer
> the updated myarray.js from the web server to the web browser.
>
> Is there another way? Is there some kind of "expire" mechanism
> that will tell the web browser that it needs to get the updated
> myarray.js file?
>
> Thanks -
> Jim Ide
>
>
>
>
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