Question

I want to know how to make a live PHP page, i.e., it does not refresh/load when we submit details of a form.

Examples where it is used:

1. Stack Overflow (while submitting post)
2. Facebook (while updating status) On facebook, the status is published and the page is not reloaded.

I want to know which language I must learn/use to create such form pages.

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can do this easy with Javascript/JQuery

Example:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.0/jquery.min.js"></script> 
<script> 
var auto_refresh = setInterval(
function()
{
$('#loaddiv').fadeOut('slow').load('reload.php').fadeIn("slow");
}, 20000);
</script>

It is loading the ‘reload.php’ file into the div id ‘loaddiv’ every 20000 ms -> 20 sec.
DIV:

<div id="loaddiv"> 
</div>

And then edit the ‘reload.php’ file.

Good luck!