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CallOnMe

CallOnMe

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Sep 15, 2009
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Hi everybody,

I'm a real newbie regarding programming and i need to launch a new project so i would like to ask you some basic information.

If you need to display datas that automatically update without refreshing the page wich languages you can use?

If you get php programmers they can do it in php or you need other languages like ajax, javascript etc?
 


ajax, java script. not sure abt php.
php is more of a scripting language though a lot of people use it for many its features like regular programming language.
 
You would need a combination of things. PHP is a language for backend programming, whereas javascript is a frontend language. In other words, PHP code gets run by the server, while javascript gets run by the user's browser.

So you would need something like PHP to prepare whatever data you are trying to return (read from database, call other site, or whatever you are doing to get data) and then javascript to cause portions of the page to refresh with the data that PHP has generated.

If you are looking to hire this out, I would look for someone with strong knowledge of PHP and jQuery. jQuery is an extension of javascript that makes things much faster to develop. Hope that helps.
 
If you want to do it without refreshing the page, use JavaScript. Otherwise if you just want a date to display, but a page refresh is acceptable than you can use PHP.
 
CallOnMe said:
Hi everybody,

I'm a real newbie regarding programming and i need to launch a new project so i would like to ask you some basic information.

If you need to display datas that automatically update without refreshing the page wich languages you can use?

If you get php programmers they can do it in php or you need other languages like ajax, javascript etc?
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Yes, it will require jquery/ajax to update the page without refreshing, PHP can't do it alone.

If the data that you will be grabbing and be displayed is from a database,
then php and jQuery is the best combo for the job.

PHP can do pretty much on updating the page but it will require a page refresh, that's where jQuery comes in hand. :)
 
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