doddsey_65 Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 ok so i am using relative timestamps on my forum. if a post was created less than 1 hour ago then it will display something like 32 minutes ago. If it was posted more than 1 hour ago it will display "posted today at 10:00pm", or if it was older than 1 day then it will display the absolute time stamp. My question is how do i get them to update automatically like facebook does? i would like to use jquery for this but after searching i cant make heads or tales of any of it. so to sumarise i would like the timestamps to update without having to refresh the page. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zurev Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Well if you know javascript the concept of ajax shouldn't be too far off for you. Gathering information from another URL on the server without leaving the page, luckily we have libraries like jQuery that have built in ajax commands, like jquery.load(). Look into those two concepts, however I'm not sure how efficient loading the time from another page would be, perhaps there's a simpler javascript way someone can let us in on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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