"Matt Palermo" <webmaster@sweetphp.com> wrote in message
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> I am building a chat application and I have chat conversations stored in a
> database. I have set my Flash movie to load these external varables from
a
> small PHP script that I wrote. I have it loading everything into a
textarea
> and it's working fine. But now I need the Flash app to check peridically
to
> see if any new chat messages were posted to the script. I have it
initially
> loading the whole conversation just fine, but how do I reload the PHP
> variables (the conversation) peridically to check for new messages. I
will
> also need it to reload when a user clicks the submit button to submit
their
> message. Any ideas on how to make it reload?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
> http://sweetphp.com
>
>

"Jack" <jackleaman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> to force the server to send anew, add some junk -
>
> myScript = "blah.php";
> verDate = new Date();
> verTime = verDate.getTime();
> myLoadVars.load(myScript+"?vers="+verTime);
>
> hth
>
> "Matt Palermo" <webmaster@sweetphp.com> wrote in message
> news:cc2gok$c3k$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> > I am building a chat application and I have chat conversations stored in
a
> > database. I have set my Flash movie to load these external varables
from
> a
> > small PHP script that I wrote. I have it loading everything into a
> textarea
> > and it's working fine. But now I need the Flash app to check
peridically
> to
> > see if any new chat messages were posted to the script. I have it
> initially
> > loading the whole conversation just fine, but how do I reload the PHP
> > variables (the conversation) peridically to check for new messages. I
> will
> > also need it to reload when a user clicks the submit button to submit
> their
> > message. Any ideas on how to make it reload?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt
> > http://sweetphp.com
> >
> >
>
>

"Matt Palermo" <webmaster@sweetphp.com> wrote in message
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> How often will this check for new data?
>
>
> "Jack" <jackleaman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cc3gsu$hk2$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> > to force the server to send anew, add some junk -
> >
> > myScript = "blah.php";
> > verDate = new Date();
> > verTime = verDate.getTime();
> > myLoadVars.load(myScript+"?vers="+verTime);
> >
> > hth
> >
> > "Matt Palermo" <webmaster@sweetphp.com> wrote in message
> > news:cc2gok$c3k$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> > > I am building a chat application and I have chat conversations stored
in
> a
> > > database. I have set my Flash movie to load these external varables
> from
> > a
> > > small PHP script that I wrote. I have it loading everything into a
> > textarea
> > > and it's working fine. But now I need the Flash app to check
> peridically
> > to
> > > see if any new chat messages were posted to the script. I have it
> > initially
> > > loading the whole conversation just fine, but how do I reload the PHP
> > > variables (the conversation) peridically to check for new messages. I
> > will
> > > also need it to reload when a user clicks the submit button to submit
> > their
> > > message. Any ideas on how to make it reload?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Matt
> > > http://sweetphp.com
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>