> I want to have a PHP website that feeds information > off a mysql database. But generally changes occour > and instead of asking users to refresh the page to get > the updates is there a way to provide the updates > without them needing to refresh the page? > > E.G. For like shooping Carts, Chat rooms, etc... > > Is there a way in PHP or something to make updates > show up live as they happen instead of the yucky meta > refresh tag in HTML? > > Thanks for your time in advance.
I'm sorry, I always dissapoint you, but what ever you want to send to browser must be demend by the browser. I mean you can tell browser to reload part of the page, browser has to ask for it, you can send more information to the browser and then use DHTML to provide the showing, or hiding... There is only one way how to do, what you want (but it always ask the server, only user will not see reloading). The way is to have 2 frames: 1st for showing the content and the second to refresh every 1 min. (or as you want), receive informations and using DHTML change the content of the first frame, the secomd frame could be at the bootom of the browser, 1pixel height, to be "invisible" Brona -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
