Printing DB data separetly

[pacome]

hi... I'm trying to program a small game for myself...

I've got some data in a DB which I extract within a WHILE loop, but I would like the data extracted to print slowly, not all at once! let's evey 30 seconds interval...

 

while ($cont < {

 

extract data;

print one of the 8 every 30 seconds;

}

 

¿which function or line does this type of thing?

 

thank you.

[Barand]

 

¿which function or line does this type of thing?

 

In PHP, none.

 

PHP runs on the server and delivers the whole page when the script has executed.

 

To do what you you want would require a javascript (client-side) timer event and either a javascript array generated by the PHP code or an AJAX solution to fetch 1 st record, then on next call, get first 2 records etc

[pacome]

right... so I will check Javascript

 

thanks again!

[Barand]

PS Although an HTML meta refresh and a session variable as a counter might accomplish it

[pacome]

ok! I will try with the meta... and see if I manage to do it! after all is only a game and I can allow myself to be flexible... thanks!