Re: Rotating images every 30 sec. in PHP?

Hi David! On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, David Knape wrote: > > > for the second time: how can i make PHP rotate the images every 30 sec. > > without refreshing the whole page? > > Back in the day, (1995), I remember making server-push animations with CGI > using Perl. There were some well known scripts that started with NPH ( I > think non-parsed header ), but I may be wrong. Since then, GIF animations > and JavaScript have allowed the same kinds of effects without making new > calls to the server, but just out of curiosity, is there any way to mimic > that kind of functionality in PHP? to my (poor:) knowledge on this, I remember the browser keeps a connection with the server for the animated gifs, to load those frames. you can try to output those frames with PHP I guess, telling it first it's a gif (so you must know the gif89 (?) format), then know how to send one frame a time (then wait yet another <timeout> seconds). But what the heck, isn't JS *perfect* for this? sign your JS code, to shout 'hey, it ain't a Guniski hack here, look I have a VeriSign certificate for my code' and it should be okay :) -- teodor