gif animation not playing on refresh

Question

First time I view the page with an animated .gif it plays fine on page load (lasts about 2 secs).

On refresh (F5), the .gif no longer plays and only the last frame of gif animation is shown.

Is there anything I can do do to make sure it plays everytime?

Answer 1

For the PHP the much better option then using date("Ymdgis"); is using time(), like this:

<img src="picturePath.gif?<?php echo time();?>" />