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Auto refresh the portal

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Leppie:
Would it be possible to add an auto-refresh setting so that the portal updates every now and then.
This way the recent topics, who's online and ShoutBox will be updated and display more recent events.

[SiNaN]:
You can make the shoutbox auto-refresh by going to Admin > SimplePortal > Shoutbox > Shoutbox List, clicking the Modify link for the shoutbox and setting the Auto refresh setting.

You can make the whole portal page auto-refresh by the following code edit but it's not suggested:

Sources/Subs-Portal.php


--- Code: (Find) --- $initialized = true;
--- End code ---


--- Code: (Replace) --- if ($context['SPortal']['on_portal'])
{
$context['html_headers'] .= '
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5">';
}

$initialized = true;
--- End code ---

Change 5 as the number of seconds you want auto-refresh to happen.

Burke Knight:
NOTE:

Auto-refreshing can do the following:
1. Annoy users.
2. Cause server problems, like cpu and memory overloads.
3. Use up a lot of bandwidth.
4. Use up your hit allowance. (A lot of free web hosts have daily hit allowance limitations.)

Leppie:

--- Quote from: [SiNaN] on August 23, 2013, 06:21:39 AM ---You can make the shoutbox auto-refresh by going to Admin > SimplePortal > Shoutbox > Shoutbox List, clicking the Modify link for the shoutbox and setting the Auto refresh setting.

--- End quote ---
Thanks for this tip.

Is it possible to have the "Who's Online" box auto-refresh like the ShoutBox?

Leppie:

--- Quote from: BurkeKnight on August 23, 2013, 07:15:47 AM ---NOTE:

Auto-refreshing can do the following:
1. Annoy users.

--- End quote ---
Very valid point, and I would like to avoid auto-refresh for the whole portal.
The others a bit less in my case as I have a dedicated server for the forum.

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