Timer Sim Issue

NZ_Kiwis

I'm building a small simulation game using HTML, PHP, AJAX, MySQL.

I've got it all designed except one issue I can't solve.

I want the simulation to change month every 5 mins (configurable). At each interval a series of 'services' are called. This will update my simulation with all the relevant events.

Initially I thought, I'll do a set Timer internal in JS. Easy but if the page refreshes for any reason then the timer starts again.

I thought, when I update the current interval I could do a 'Next Interval' timestamp. I could then check every 5 seconds if the current timestamp is greater than the next interval stamp and if so true 'true' but this seems like hard work and a lot of extra load on the server with a heap more extra AJAX calls.

Can I get some thoughts on how to solve this please?

cluelessPHP

Doing it with JS should be easy enough

setInterval(function() {      

		  $.ajax({    

			type: "GET",
			url: "your page here",             

			dataType: "html",          

			success: function(response){                    

				$("your div/span here").html(response); 
			}

	   });
	}, 1000 //set time here);

Then you could set a trigger in your database, an easy to follow tutorial

http://tutsheap.com/web/create-triggers-phpmyadmin/

NZ_Kiwis

cluelessPHP;11061091 wrote:

Doing it with JS should be easy enough

setInterval(function() {      

		  $.ajax({    

			type: "GET",
			url: "your page here",             

			dataType: "html",          

			success: function(response){                    

				$("your div/span here").html(response); 
			}

	   });
	}, 1000 //set time here);

Then you could set a trigger in your database, an easy to follow tutorial

http://tutsheap.com/web/create-triggers-phpmyadmin/

But when a user refreshes the page the timer starts again. I want to disable that.

cluelessPHP

Ah sorry I'm with you now, you want some sort of push, here is a list of most languages them in git

https://github.com/pushtechnology