silvercover Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 I have to make a website for local restaurants to let people order foods online. I decided to make this system real-time. In other words, i want it to notify restaurant kitchen about new orders synchronously (at least almost). What i have in my mind is to make a program ( we call it messenger ) to check server periodically with default or custom intervals. for example it should check database for new orders every 30 seconds. When i look at this solution, it comes to my mind that there must be better solutions which i am not aware of! so i came here to ask you guys what is the best solution for this? My ideal solution is to have notifying mechanism like what we see in Instant messenger like Yahoo Messenger. As you know when you receive new email, YIM notifies you by showing a message and this not based on client side checking system that i mentioned in first paragraph. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 How is it going to do the notify? Will they have a computer with the browser open? You could just make that page constantly refresh. If they're expecting email, just have it email when the new order is placed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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