Solution 1: now sockets¶
Solution 2: pusher
http://pusher.com/
https://github.com/squeeks/Pusher-PHP
Using the best simplest technique trigger PHP and JS script to achieve the push result.
Solution 3: just the traditional techniques
You cannot push data to a browser, but what you can do is set up your webpage to poll your server every few seconds for updates. An example setup would be:
From within your website, have a javascript function that runs on a timer every few seconds (or whatever interval works best for your situation).
Start that timer on page load.
That javascript function invokes an AJAX call to a web service on your web server (more on that in a second).
On the server side you’ll need some sort of system that tracks these events and stores them somewhere such as in a database table with a timestamp. So for example when XYZ creates an account, that would be logged in this “event” table in the db.
The web service called by the AJAX call will then run a query on that table and retrieve all entries since the last time it was called. Then just update the webpage with those results.
It’s obviously not 100% “live” as there will be a small delay depending on what time interval you set in the JS timer but it’s pretty close.
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