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er0x

Oct 6 2009, 11:45 PM

ok so i have a project for work and i kinda dont know where to get started on it.

i need a news ticker. sort of like a rss feed but what i put in the database.

i need it to update every 10 seconds and sort through the last 10 entries from a database.

can you help point me in a direction with the updating every 10 seconds?

Neil

Oct 7 2009, 03:20 AM

So it has to update in the user's browser every 10 seconds?

Install jquery and do something like:

CODE

$(document).ready(function()
{
// Update the news every 10000 microseconds (check the doc to see how many seconds this is)
setInterval(update_news, 10000)

update_news();

});

function update_news()
{
$("#news").load("/news/");
};

Now this add a div on your website like: <div id="news">Loading...</div>

Once the page is rendered it will place all the html from /news/ into that div.

I didn't test any of that syntax so I can't 100% guarantee it would work, but its a start.

cheers

References:
http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery
http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax
http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/load#urldatacallback

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