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You should be developing with error reporting on so that you can spot these issues early on.

Don't bump old threads and don't self promote.

Nope

There is one - http://forums.phpfreaks.com/page/tutorials - they're talking about members being able to post tutorials.

Buying a house is on my list for this year, hopefully it won't be on the next one too...

Please use the code tags in the future.

Please use the code tags around your code in the future.

As ignace said, start with small things, you don't want to overwhelm yourself. Pick a concept, technique, or technology and learn it. Then you can learn how they work together. For some ideas, here's a list of easy to hard projects: http://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/262327-bored-looking-for-ideas-heres-a-list/

Do not double (in your case quadruple) post.

Looks like the 'm' alias was never even defined. FROM months m

Yes.

Post line 84, like josh said, there's probably something wrong with your include.

welcome

What exactly are you trying to do? In jQuery you can bind events/methods.

We need to see some code.

Probably your code is wrong.

Don't double post, I deleted your other topic. Use code tags.

Are you receiving JSON?

Locking this. I'll have to always include a forward link to the moved topic.

Welcome

Check out - http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php and its related methods.

Your PHP structure is a bit messy but essentially what you want to do is make an AJAX call to the script that grabs the latest set of entries from your shouts table. This snippet requires JQuery and will probably populate your chat more than you want but at least you'll get the idea: function refreshChat(){ var url = './your-php-script.php'; //Pass in whatever parameters you need here $.ajax({ type: 'POST', url: url, success: function(data){ $('div#chat').replaceWith(data); } }); }

Where are you "refreshing" from? If you're storing the chat messages on the server then you need to make an ajax call in your refreshDiv() function and replace the chat with the new content. If not, then you need to elaborate.

What do you mean "for web developers"? Are you going to be testing on it or what?

Welcome jcbones, for some reason I already thought you were a guru.