I would like to make a web-based game which is Travian-like (or Ikariam-like). The game will be in PHP & MySQL-based. I wonder how can I achieve the live updating of game attributes. For frontend, I can achieve by using AJAX calls (fetch the latest values from database), or even fake update of values (not communicated with server). Fo...
Hi I have several different groups which my users can subscribe to. When they are logged in their mainpage will be /frontpage which is a Views generated view based on the users subscribed groups and it shows the latest activity across those groups. I am using the Live Update API to show new content whenever it is posted. As it is now i...
I want to do something very similar to Google Doc's live updating - where all users can "immediately" see the actions of the other users in the doc. To achieve this, my ideas so far: Continuous AJAX requests being done in the background (this would seem performance-intensive)? Surely there's not a way for the server to push notificat...