Between you and Joshua - I think you gave some good ideas - not how I
intended it to work - but definately a way to make it work.
With a little js and css - If a page comes back to this invisible frame
-I could have it resize so they can see what I am sending - while not
losing their page - The only issue I guess I will have to overcome is
how my cookies will act - I will have to set a new function to read and
get their cookie and cart info - so that anything clicked on from the
"pushed" page will be recorded properly into their cart.
The only thing is - I definately am a bit reserved in having to
implement an invisible frame - especially site wide.
Thanks though - gave me some interesting solutions guys!
jay
Scott Weikert wrote:
Well this is something I hatched in my brain in about ten seconds, so it
may need some work.
One thing you can do is set up, if you're able (i.e. no proclamations
about
being frameless) an "invisible frame" - i.e. you do 'rows="100%,*"'. Put
your main content in the visible frame, and set up the second, invisible
frame, to be on a timed refresh.
When a user can't find something, and clicks the "send a 'help!' to the
admin" button, you store the particulars of that request in your
database.
Tag it with some identifier for the user - i.e. some UUID that you store
in
a cookie, IP number, whatever.
Admin does his surfing, and updates the database record with the proper
link.
Remember the second, invisible frame, with the page that's refreshing
from
time to time? That page always looks in the database for a record with
the
user's identifier, AND that has an admin-supplied solution. If it finds
one, then it executes a JS popup that displays the info the admin
supplied,
in whatever form.
Maybe set up this page to autorefresh every minute. If it finds nothing
(no
requests for help that have been answered), this page should execute
super-super-fast and not be a burden on your server/bandwidth.
At 05:50 PM 1/29/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Okay - to clarify push -
I think explanation of the scenario is best -
1) User can't find a product or a piece of information on a large
website -
2) User clicks a button and sends a request to the Administrator - ( a
whole que or dynamic page would be setup to handle these requests and
post multiple ones)
3) Administrator surfs around - finds the piece of information And
pushes it back to user.
4) On users computer in the originating browser window - or maybe frame
-the file loads up. IN fact thinking it would have to be frames based.
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