Live Hit Counter, PHP/JS, u try to make?

[zapa]

hey Just looking around for refrence of hints if anyone has ever tryed to make a Live Hits coutner with PHP and JS?

live hit counter: when a person is at a website and someone joins website, hit is animted/changed to show next number.

I am sure they have this with flash but not sure if anyone has other formats.

thanks,
z

[ZibingsCoder]

You could create a javascript function that loads a file every so many seconds to check if the number has changed. Saw a post about this somewhere...

function loadit()
{
	var newscript  = document.createElement("script")
	newscript.type = "text/javascript"
	newscript.src  = "dothat.js"
	document.body.appendChild(newscript)
}

Basically goes something like that. You can set that on a timer, have it change things depending on that loaded script... But the important part is having that newscript.src file to be generated by PHP.

There's your idea, let me know if you get it running, I'm curious to see something in working order with this method.

[zapa]

ill have to look up the code for not refreshing the full window on timer in JS

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by zapa
ill have to look up the code for not refreshing the full window on timer in JS

I've provided a link to an example here