Prompting on page updates

[kyern]

I have a unique problem I am hoping I can get some insight on. I have a intranet page that updates its content by a javascript refresh. I need to change this so the page checks for updated entries in real time if there are more entries than current update the page. Checking for updates like this looks like a job for AJAX. Does that sound correct or is there any other way to check for updates like I am describing?

David

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Using AJAX would be a quick way to do this, yes. You could also use an iframe, but this is effectively doing the same thing.

Hope this helps,
Dan





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[snowboardr]

I would use AJAX, and the way i would do it, would be to create a script in PHP or whatever language you use, to connect to the database or check the file or whatever and output a integer 0 for no new upload and 1 for new upload then you can then use a simple setTimeOut to check this variable every second or whatever... you'd like... And check your responseText to see if that number = 1 then do another ajax function to reload the innerHTML of your page...


Jason