an idea

[tuf-web.co.uk]

maybe this is not possible, but if it is could someone tell me. and possibly even add it to the next upgrade of the phpbuilder forums

i think what would be really useful to people looking for advice would be to automatically refresh the page once someone had replied to their question/s

like a persistent connection to mysql which automatically checks the database if it has been changed within so many seconds for example.

i think it would be useful because people wouldnt have to keep clicking refresh to see if someone had replied or not, and this way if the page was loaded seconds before someone posted a reply to it, then the person also offering advice wouldnt need to give advice on a question already answered

what do you think?!

[epimeth]

the words 'seriously doubtful' comes to mind....

[stolzyboy]

yep, not likely!

[Jedi Legend]

Wouldn't it be easier just to kill the server? ;)

[axo]

surely this is not the best idea :D ...
and for those who want to be notified on a new reply, there is the e-mail-notification option in your profile. just let your e-mail-client collect your mail every minute - and whoosh - you get notified shortly after a new post was sent :)

but i had a similar problem with sessions for someone who wanted a session to be strictly destroyed after e.g. 20 minutes... and by working on it, i saw that there is NO possibility to force the browser to reload server-side without the 'non-reliable' use of meta refresh or javascript (non-reliable because both can be ignored by the browser).

finished working, but still no secure solution...