On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 09:29:26PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > 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? Slightly. PHP code runs on the server, so in the browser, it won't "ping" the server. Yes, you should have a PHP script on the server to do the processing, (call it, say, "process.php") and one which paints the basic screen for the browser (call it "page.php" or somesuch). But the connection between these should be AJAX code in the page.php script. That will most likely be Javascript in the page.php script which will "ping" the process.php script for whatever contents you want. The Javascript to do this is beyond the scope of this list (it's a PHP list, after all). The "process" script doesn't have to be PHP. It could be any language you prefer, as long as you can get it to return JSON or XML to page.php, so that the Javascript in the page.php script can interpret it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
