Refreshing my page?

[deep]

Hello,

Im trying to build the most simple chat that ever existed. I use php to write to a file (the message i just typed in) so that the user im chatting with can see it.

My question is. How do I get the html page that displays the messages (gotten from the text file) to reload exactelly when I press enter and the message is stored in the file. When the message is stored in the file, thats when the page needs to reload for ALL users???

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[yelvington]

Can't. HTTP works roughly like this:

Connection opened
Client->Server request
Client<-Server response
Connection closed

There is no connection maintained between the server and the users. An event can not force anything to happen among the clients.

All HTTP-based chat applications work by having the client continually poll for updates. Try:

header("Refresh: 5; url=http://$SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$SERVER[PHP_SELF]");

or the equivalent in an HTML META tag.

[deep]

ok, how do i avoide the "clicking" sound when a page is refreshed?

[yelvington]

Don't load Microsoft's add-on browser sounds? :-)

Put your data in an iframe. Don't reload the master page, just the iframe.

[deep]

Hmm... i still hear the clicking sound when the page is refreshed 🙁