Re: [PHP] PHP "Smart Refresh" for looping server lookups

2003-09-22 Thread Marek Kilimajer
You can use a hidden iframe that would regularly refresh and if new messages are waiting send some javascript. In this javascript use DOM functions to insert the new message into the page. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may sound a bit long and drawn out, but I'll try my best to summarize what

Re: [PHP] PHP "Smart Refresh" for looping server lookups

2003-09-20 Thread Jim Lucas
in the past people have talked about doing this in a few different ways. 1. Have an image that javascript refreshes the url on and when doing so calls to a php script that checks to see if anything is newer then the last time that it checked. And if something has ben updated then have the