help with ajax refresh with database
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hey there. kinda new to this only been coding for about 8 months using basic asp and got set a task by a friend to build a chat client using .asp and ajax and javascripts. im trying to refresh the page using something other than meta refresh. the click is annoying people (if you going to point out to me im going agenst the user knowing the page is updating bla bla bla, please go annoy some one else as ive already read about it). i would like a way to update the page with out the click or a flicker. i call the chat information from a database which stores all the chat messages. any ideas would be helpful. thanks p.s please keep it simple for me as im new to coding PETVAMPIRE - NEWBIE
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hey there. kinda new to this only been coding for about 8 months using basic asp and got set a task by a friend to build a chat client using .asp and ajax and javascripts. im trying to refresh the page using something other than meta refresh. the click is annoying people (if you going to point out to me im going agenst the user knowing the page is updating bla bla bla, please go annoy some one else as ive already read about it). i would like a way to update the page with out the click or a flicker. i call the chat information from a database which stores all the chat messages. any ideas would be helpful. thanks p.s please keep it simple for me as im new to coding PETVAMPIRE - NEWBIE
petvampire wrote:
if you going to point out to me im going agenst the user knowing the page is updating bla bla bla, please go annoy some one else as ive already read about it).
:omg: :wtf: take it easy, mate. The first rule of thumb of getting help is humbleness.
petvampire wrote:
i would like a way to update the page with out the click or a flicker.
How about timer?
petvampire wrote:
any ideas would be helpful.
Hmmm, did you said asp? Well it is doable but not starightforward. Look at this one[^]
Yusuf
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hey there. kinda new to this only been coding for about 8 months using basic asp and got set a task by a friend to build a chat client using .asp and ajax and javascripts. im trying to refresh the page using something other than meta refresh. the click is annoying people (if you going to point out to me im going agenst the user knowing the page is updating bla bla bla, please go annoy some one else as ive already read about it). i would like a way to update the page with out the click or a flicker. i call the chat information from a database which stores all the chat messages. any ideas would be helpful. thanks p.s please keep it simple for me as im new to coding PETVAMPIRE - NEWBIE