Question

I’m have a PHP and MYSQL based newsfeed. To get new content, the user has to refresh the page. I’m working on a push system that would update the element with new posts without refreshing the whole page. How would I go about that?

Answer 1

Sounds like a job for Ajax!

Also if you want to make the work really easy, use jquery. The Syntax would look something like this:

$.ajax({
type: "post", url: "/SomeController/SomeAction",
success: function (data, text) {
    //....
},
error: function (request, status, error) {
    alert(request.responseText);
}
});

EDIT

to have the page update when a user clicks on a “show more content” link you can either use javascripts onclick function or use jquery’s built in stuff.

Regular JS:

<somekindOfLinkOrButton onclick("moarStories();")/>

<script>
    function moarStories(){
        //ajax here
    };
</script>

Jquery way (much eaiser)

<script>
   $("#ElementId").click(function(){
         //ajax here
   });