What I do is have an invisible frame that checks the timestamp of the last update to the chat against your last refresh timstamp. If it's superior, I refresh the chat list. I actually make this check without a call to the database, if you have 100+ chatters, check calls to the db can become heavy. I just have a file that holds the last update tstamp and read this file. The check page refreshes itself every 20 seconds (plenty enough for a chat I realized) and has the last given value of a refresh.
You can see my chat at http://zc8.com, you have to login though. On Thursday 08 November 2001 01:09 pm, kelvin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have designed a chat program which used a refresh function to update > the chat list every 10 second. But How can I perdict the flicker screen, or > Can anyone tell me how to re-write the program so everytime people send > message to the chat box, the chat box will not flicker at all. Oh, Please > I'm not really good at PHP, so,please give me more details on it. Thanks. > so much. > > Regards, > Kelvin. > > Main window ------index.html (break down into two frame. > topframe for chat box, bottonframe for input message) > > Bottonframe PHP will save the message to file. > Topframe PHP will refresh every ten second and retrieve the > data from the file. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
