mark123

Hi, I'm looking to create a very small .swf which displays how many posts/topics/members there are in my forum - but Im looking for it to update in real time. So as posts are made on the forum, if someone is viewing the homepage they see the number update 'live' I'm wondering if anyone can tell if this is hard to do? I'm fine with PHP and am just starting to learn flash, but so far only have done minor animation. Would it work by embedding a PHP script in the flash to run a query on the db to count the posts, then echo it in the flash. But how would I get it to update live? If anyone has any ideas on how I can get the live update bit to work, I'd appreciate it. Many thanks mark