Benjamin,
I believe you understood properly, yes!
I'm not sending the server any information, just receiving back information
from a database which is influenced from other sources, not this
application. I'll have to lookup SetInterval syntax, thanks for the
pointer. Is it wise to try the excerpt you put below in a separate script
to keep my XHTML clean and call it within the div somehow?
Thanks again for your help.
On 8/10/07, Benjamin Sterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Steve,
> You ultimately don't need to send params to the server side page, you will
> just need to account for the returned information.
>
> $.ajax({
> type: "POST",
> url: "some.php",
>
> success: function(msg){
> alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
> }
> });
>
> the success is where you would put your function to handle your return
> information.
>
> Now, if this is something you want to do every X amount of minutes or
> seconds, just put that in a setInterval function.
>
> Let me know if I understood you correctly.
>
> On 8/10/07, Steve Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm looking to populate a div with information from a database ...
> > don't want to pass any parameters to the serverside script, just want
> > the div updated according to my query if the db record sets are
> > modified, is .ajaxStart() the appropriate function for this?
> >
> > I'm basically looking to have the jquery poll the server every X
> > seconds. Since HTTP is a connectionless protocol, I'm not entirely
> > sure what the proper way would be to stop/start the request using good
> > practices.
> >
> > In pseudo-type code it should work like this:
> >
> > User visits site.
> >
> > a request is made from the client to the server to invoke a function.
> > a function on the server-side queries my mysql database with a simple
> > query.
> > the result set is returned as an array to the javascript object.
> > the javascript object gets injected into the DOM.
> >
> > No parameters are passed in the ajax request to the server.
> >
> > thanks again for any insight folks.
> >
> >
>
>
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