Re: Alternatives for Meta Refresh

Let me give you a direction with this one. You can use a http/1.1 stream and keep flushing the buffer with an script timeout set to 0. Simply open the page then just add something to the buffer and flush and then wait a little while then flush... just like a database would do. I do have a working application somewhere. No clicking... but remember that IE has a 2 connection limit per domain. (without registry changes) Timothy Hitchens (HiTCHO) tim@hitcho.com.au HiTCHO | Open Platform Web Development Consulting - Outsourcing - Training - Support ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> To: "Stephen" <webmaster@melchior.us>; "PHP List" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Alternatives for Meta Refresh > on 31/12/02 2:48 AM, Stephen (webmaster@melchior.us) wrote: > > > I'm writing a PHP chat script and I'm rather stumped on this. I either want > > the chat window to refresh when there's a new message or refresh every few > > seconds but not with meta refresh, rather something with less noise (the > > infamous IE clicking sound) and/or something faster. The only thing I can > > think of is the header function. Any ideas? > > The header() function (like everything in PHP) happens SERVER SIDE before > the page hits the browser, so this won't help. > > META refresh is the only standard, HTML way to do it, AFAIK -- and even > then, i'm not 100% sure that all browsers and user agents support it. > > Another option would be for javascript to refresh the page, but again, this > will probably invoke the IE clicking sound. > > > Most chat programs do use either meta refresh, or some sort of Java applet > instead of refreshing. > > > I think there are also some Flash chat things out there too. > > > Cheers, > > Justin > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >