Posted by Steve on 10/22/07 16:37

"John Doe" <dod@dad.cog> wrote in message
news:02783240$0$29357$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> Here's my issue: I have an instant messenger type feature for my site, its
> basically an ajax IM feature. I run with a mysql backend on the site, i
> have a div on my main page that runs a javascript timer to load the php
> page via ajax every 15 seconds which checks the "pinguser" table to see if
> the user has any chat requests, then echoes them to a div on the page.
> what i REALLY want to do is have the ajax page see if there is a ping for
> the user, and if so, pop up a javascript alert or somethign to let the
> user know he has a chat request. I tried just echo'ing the javascript to
> do an alert(); , or even a window.open. It works if i just run the script
> by itself, but when it runs in the div on my main page, i get the rest of
> the feedback (it displays the message i echo'ed that said "youve got
> mail", but the alert box doesnt pop up. Anyone have any idea what Im doing
> wrong? I've been googling for 3 days straight and going crazy, never
> thought to check the groups before.

it does no one any good to ficticously guess at what your problem is, and
feckless to divine a solution.

here is what i can say...this is NOT a php question. further, if you just
want to load the html/page again, you don't need javascript to do that! you
need to isolate functionality and use xml to communicate messages to/from
the server, and then use javascript to update only the pertenant area(s) or
the current page in the browser.

either ask your *javascript* question in a *javascript* newsgroup, or get
flak here. either way, no one will do shit for you until you post sample
code.

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