Question

Can anyone please tell me how to write a small div container in HTML that refreshes its contents from the data in mysql every 5 min.

This is similar to twitter updates in some webpages which show updates as and when tweeted.

Thanks.

Answer 1

With Jquery

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#live").load("ajax.php");
    var refreshId = setInterval(function () {
        $("#live").load('ajax.php?randval=' + Math.random());
    }, 3000);
});

it calls ajax.php in first load and every 3 seconds to #live div.