RE: [PHP] need an idea, please help

No they wouldn't HAVE to, but it would make the game a little more personal:) Thanks for the great help. I just hope I can help others as much when I can. ---Matt On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Boget, Chris wrote: > > 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 >