how to make random text change without reloading the page
<p>right now i have this script that gives users a random word..
however the only way to get a new word is to refresh the page...</p>

<p>i would like to be able to set the words to change at a specific interval rather then having to reload the page or browser but i have no idea how to do the and ive been reading forever and cant seem to figure it out</p>

<p>here is my php code</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php
/* File, where the random text/quotes are stored one per line */
$settings['text_from_file'] = 'quotes.txt';
/*
 * If you prefer you can list quotes that RanTex will choose from here.
 * In this case set above variable to $settings['text_from_file'] = '';
 */
$settings['quotes'] = array(
    'First quote',
    'Multi
line
quote',
    'Second quote',
    'Third quote',
    'Some text with &lt;b&gt;HTML&lt;/b&gt; code!',
    'Any single quotes \' must be escaped with a backslash',
    'A quote with a &lt;a href="http://www.phpjunkyard.com"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;!'
);
/*
 * How to display the text?
 * 0 = raw mode: print the text as it is, when using RanTex as an include
 * 1 = Javascript mode: when using Javascript to display the quote
 */
$settings['display_type'] = 1;
/* Allow on-the-fly settings override? 0 = NO, 1 = YES */
$settings['allow_otf'] = 1;
// Override type?
if ($settings['allow_otf'] &amp;&amp; isset($_GET['type'])) {
    $type = intval($_GET['type']);
} else {
    $type = $settings['display_type'];
}
// Get a list of all text options
if ($settings['text_from_file']) {
    $settings['quotes'] = file($settings['text_from_file']);
}
// If we have any text choose a random one, otherwise show 'No text to choose from'
if (count($settings['quotes'])) {
    $txt = $settings['quotes'][array_rand($settings['quotes'])];
} else {
    $txt = 'No text to choose from';
}
// Output the image according to the selected type
if ($type) {
    // New lines will break Javascript, remove any and replace them with &lt;br /&gt;
    $txt = nl2br(trim($txt));
    $txt = str_replace(array(
        "\n",
        "\r"
    ), '', $txt);
    // Set the correct MIME type
    header("Content-type: text/javascript");
    // Print the Javascript code
    echo 'document.write(\'' . addslashes($txt) . '\')';
} else {
    echo $txt;
}
?&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>here is the javascript on my .html page that calls the php code</p>

<pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="randomword.php?type=1"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Right now i get a new word evertime the page reloads but i would like the word to change every 5 seconds without having to refresh the page..... can anyone show me what my code should like?</p>