RE: [PHP] how does one bind a gui representation and a container object.

As an ammendum to the prior response, you may want to look into using AJAX with a streaming connection to the server. If you have a small number of users, this works nicely (I have used it in production systems before). http://ajaxpatterns.org/HTTP_Streaming#Solution If there are a large number of users expected, normal periodic AJAX requests would be the way to go. >You'll have to use Ajax to make another HTTP request. > >HTTP is not really designed for this, and it will make the site quite >sluggish most likely... > >You should certainly make it an async call and not slow users down with >this "feature". >