I have a dashboard page, and for the easiest solution I've made the entire page a form (as there are several drop downs scattered across the whole page). I want to implement a feature that can submit the form every 30 minutes, be it with JavaScript, jQuery or anything else, but when I've tried it just refuses to execute the code, so I tried going back to something basi such as submitting the form when the drop-down is changed via "OnChange".
Here is an example snippet of a seperate page with some code from my dashboard page. This in itself should be working but I just can't see why it won't execute the code, maybe I'm missing something obvious? Can you help me fix this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function submit_my_form(myfield)
{
myfield.form.submit();
}
function submitForm() {
document.getElementById("branchForm").submit();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$branch_array = array(
array(1,"BRANCH 1",1, "http://BRANCH.BRANCH1:1"),
array(2,"BRANCH 2",1, ""),
array(3,"BRANCH 3",3, "http://branch3:3"),
);
?>
<form action="<?php echo htmlentities($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" method="POST" name="branchForm" id="branchForm">
<select name="query" id="query" class="select" onChange="submit_my_form(this);">
<?php
foreach ($branch_array as $x) { // populate select box with branches available from array
echo '<option value ="'.$x[0].'"';
if (isset($_POST['query']) && $_POST['query'] == $x[0])
{
echo ' selected="selected" >'.$x[0].". ".$x[1].'</option>';
} else {
echo ' option="'.$x[0].". ".$x[1].'">'.$x[0].". ".$x[1].'</option>';
}
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Refresh" class="btnRefresh" />
<input type="button" value="go" name="click" onClick="submitForm();" />
</form>
<?php echo "<br/>Output: {$_POST['query']}"; ?>
</body>
</html>
Nothing happens when the drop-down is changed, and nothing happens when the "go" button is pressed.