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Asked: 2026-05-14T22:03:15+00:00

is there any jQuery plugin to create something like the live feed from the

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is there any jQuery plugin to create something like the live feed from the Twitter Main Page , using PHP, which is getting the data from a MySQL database?
How has to be the PHP file?
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  1. Editorial Team

    You really don’t need a plugin for this, you could easily create something similar yourself using jQuery to make AJAX calls to a PHP MySQL feed

    Create a script to make reoccurring AJAX calls using setTimeout() and then add the new found results to the feed container using .prepend()

    HTML

    <html>
<head><title>Tweets</title>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

<style>
#tweets {
    width: 500px;
    font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
#tweets li {
    background-color: #E5EECC;
    margin: 2px;
    list-style-type: none;
}
.author {
    font-weight: bold
}
.date {
    font-size: 10px;
}
</style>

<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    setInterval("showNewTweets()", 1000);
});

function showNewTweets() {
    $.getJSON("feed.php", null, function(data) {
        if (data != null) {
            $("#tweets").prepend($("<li><span class=\"author\">" + data.author + "</span> " +  data.tweet + "<br /><span class=\"date\">" + data.date + "</span></li>").fadeIn("slow"));
        }
    });
}
</script>

</head>
<body>

<ul id="tweets"></ul>

</body>
</html>

    PHP

    <?php
echo json_encode(array( "author" => "someone",
                        "tweet" => "The time is: " . time(), 
                        "date" => date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A')));
?>
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