javascript notification

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I’m building an application for a college project. It allows users to log into a room and vote on something. In order for people to vote the moderator has to start a poll first. I would like to notify all users logged into a room when a poll has been started, a poll is started via a controller action createPoll. I assume javascript is the best way to go here, any ideas fellas. I’m new php, and even newer to javascript so any input is greatly appreciated.

2

As you probably already know, web servers can’t push notifications to clients - HTTP doesn’t make it possible. The client has to check if a new poll started and this check has to be repeated periodically in an infinite loop.

Starting points:

setTimeout()

jQuery.ajax()

3

well… there is also Ajax Push Engine (http://www.ape-project.org/) which is a Comet implementation and could help here.

4

can you pls tell me what database tables you used ????