BBC Sport autoupdating page

xerouk · 22 Mar 2011 at 11:43

Hi i am looking to make a sports web page and was wondering how hard the autoupdating page was to make.

Thanks

Tripnologist · 22 Mar 2011 at 12:25

You would just do an ajax call every x amount of time to retrieve new data.

GravyMonster · 22 Mar 2011 at 12:33

Exactly.

Create a new feed in whatever format you're comfortable with (eg. XML, JSON) and have your site make an ajax call to it every x seconds.

visibleman · 22 Mar 2011 at 14:51

Or look at comet/ajax-push(APE etc), more setup but a better solution to the client constantly polling your servers.

BaJ · 22 Mar 2011 at 15:47

As above, a push server is a good solution, I've used nodejs recently with some success.