RE: [PHP] need an idea, please help

> Perfect! I could even have the smaller frame be a message > type thing so the players could taunt each other :) (make > them WANT to refresh that frame to see what the latest > snappy retort was :) ). Well, the players wouldn't refresh the page themselves unless they really wanted to. This task would be taken care of by the browser > Oh...Um, how would I do this? (As I said, I'm learning here > when I don't have homework or a test or work or ...) In the page in the very small frame, you are going to have to echo: echo "<head>< META http-equiv=\"REFRESH\" content=\"30; URL=your_page\"> </head>\n"; And what that does is every 30 seconds, that frame will load "your_page". The PHP script on that page will need to query the database to check the state of the game to see if it's changed. If it does, echo out some javascript that will trigger something in the main frame that tells it to reload. You could probably just do something like: parent.frames[1].location = chess_game_page.php or something along those lines to force the refresh. The above are just starting points. You will need to do further research to put it all together. Chris