This is not a PHP question, but I'm hoping someone here could have the experience to help me out.
I am writing an online classified ads system using PHP and MySQL.
I don't have any experience writing applications for Ms Windows, but now I would like to write a separate message checker for my classified ad program.
Basically, I want users to download and intall the program. This program should then run each time the computer is booted up. I want it to periodically (every couple of minutes) connect to mysql database and see if the user has any new messages, and if so pop up an onscreen alert.
What programming language do I need to learn for this? I know a bit of C, but not much.
TIA.
Richie.
