Refresh DIV Every 10 Seconds

[WickidGRAFX]

I have some ad code in a smarty .tpl file that I want to refresh every 10 seconds so it will load a new ad. My ads are getting plenty of views but I want people to multilple ads in one page view instead of when the whole page is refreshed.

<div id="ads_refresh">
{if $ads->ad_top != ""}
</div>

All the code I have browsed on the web want to load an external file into a div instead of just refreshing the div with the content already in it. This is an urgent matter and would like some help ASAP. As always I appreciate the knowledge I receive. Thanks.

[pritaeas]

You can use javascript/jquery to rotate through content in a div. There are a lot of examples out there, so it depends mostly on how you want it to look, and what content you have. Something like this perhaps: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/automatic-image-slider-w-css-jquery/

[WickidGRAFX]

That will not work in my case. The SMARTY template loads the ads in at run time through a database query and then the core of the application that I am not to familiar with, then keeps track of what ads to display and tracks clicks. The ad is changed everytime the page is refreshed.

I thought there was a way AJAX could refresh a single element on a page without having to actually load physical data in such as file.

[almostbob]

an Ajax refesh is exactly NOT what you described
Ajax polls the server and relads the returned data file into the the same position, but it is a file transfer, there is no magic appearing data, it has to come from somewhere