Dear Adam,
"You can do it without polling. I've seen web applications that open a neverending GET request in order to get updates to the browser instantaneously. Regards, Adam." Kindly elaborate on "neverending GET request". Shall I call the script from within itself? Regards KM On 6/8/06, Adam Zey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Barry wrote: > Angelo Zanetti schrieb: >> kartikay malhotra wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Is there a way for the server to notify the client about an event, >>> provided >>> the client was online in the past X minutes? >>> >>> To elaborate: >>> >>> A client comes online. A script PHP executes (serves the client), and >>> terminates. Now if a new event occurs, how can the server notify the >>> client >>> about that event? >>> >>> Thanks >>> KM >>> >> >> >> what kind of event?? > > Server bored and fooling around with the neighbor servers hardware :P > > But Ajax would be the best method using. > > Anyway else isn't possible (well refreshing would be one way) > > But since you don't want php files to execute forever you will have to > stick to AJAX. > You can do it without polling. I've seen web applications that open a neverending GET request in order to get updates to the browser instantaneously. Regards, Adam. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
