Hrm, been looking at it for a while now and I can feel a headache coming up. I think I need to have one PHP script that does the processing, and another that the user pulls up in their browser. That one "pings" the processor every so often to get updated data. Yes? Am I way off here? > -----Original Message----- > From: TG [mailto:tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 8:48 PM > To: Ashley M. Kirchner; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Updating HTML on page > > The only way to do it with PHP alone would be to control the output > buffering and I've found that to be inconsistant in quality and > predictability with different browsers even web servers. I'm sure > there's an art to getting that all working well with various > technologies > that are involved in the script -> client caching and processing, but > why > mess with iffy when you can use a proven technology like AJAX. > > Get familiar with jQuery (or one of the other big JS libraries, but > jQuery > is my choice hands-down) and you'll probably find it's pretty easy. > > -TG -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
