I have a web page in which I am trying to refresh a iFrame. I'm trying to do it with something like a <input />
button and javascript. I can't seem to get the iFrame to reload without clearing the cache. Getting PHP to clear the cache would be even better.
EDIT-UPDATE
Here's the working implementation inline.
<input type="button" onClick="javascript: var iFrame = document.getElementById('compilePreview'); iFrame.src = '<? echo ($myFile); ?>?random=' + (new Date()).getTime() + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000000);" value="Reload Preview" />
<iframe id="compilePreview" src="<? echo ($myFile); ?>" width="940"></iframe>
And of coarse the onload was soon to follow, eliminating the need for the button.
<script>
window.onload=refreshIframe;
function refreshIframe(){
var iFrame = document.getElementById('compilePreview');
iFrame.src = '<? echo ($myFile); ?>?random=' + (new Date()).getTime() + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000000);
}
</script>
The first choice is probably to control browser caching for the iframe page from your web server either with HTTP headers or with <meta>
tags (see reference).
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
If you can't change those, then you can set a .src
in the iframe that has a different query parameter each time to go around caching.
For example:
iframeObj.src = "http://www.example.com/page/myframe.html?random=" + (new Date()).getTime() + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000000);
This is something you should do on the server side, controlled via HTTP headers like so:
<?php
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Expires: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT"); // some day in the past
You could do something like
<iframe src="<?php echo $url.'#nocache'.time(); ?>">
#document</iframe>
Which would allow for GET parameters in the URL without also having to worry about whether to use ? or & for your random.
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