Re: Notification system

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Jonathan Tapicer<tapicer@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, take a look at Comet Server: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) > > I think that Facebook uses that and also Gmail, it tends to consume > less resources than periodical ajax calls, the hidden iframe method is > simple and works fine. To implement it in PHP you will need to use the > flush function to send data a continue processing/polling. > > Regards, > > Jonathan > > 2009/8/7 Phpster <phpster@gmail.com>: >> >> >> >> >> On Aug 2, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Dušan Novaković <ndusan@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does anyone has any idea how to create notification system with >>> combination of php, mysql and javascript. It should be something >>> similar to facebook notification system (when someone make some action >>> it should be automatically reported to other people on system through >>> pop-up menu or something like that). I just need some basic idea how >>> to start or if someone has some example it would be perfect. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Dusan >>> >>> -- made by Dusan >>> >>> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >> >> I think you could have some kind if Ajax polling of a php function. To keep >> the traffic down you could set it to poll once a minute or every 30 seconds >> or so. Send a simple XML stream that could feed a defined JavaScript >> function or a bit of xslt for display. >> >> >> Bastien >> >> Sent from my iPod >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/facebookchatarchitecture is an interesting blog on how they do it -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat