In facebook or twitter time of post is changing every minute on every post.
Any idea how to make it?
Acute -2 Junior Poster
steelshark 0 Junior Poster in Training
Make a field in your database for each post, that records the time & date when it was posted.
Then you can make a function that returns the current datetime - the insertdatetime...
You round it off to whatever you want(ours, mins, seconds), and you just have to call that function than.
Acute -2 Junior Poster
You mean send AJAX request every minute to php function that gets date and counts the difference?
steelshark 0 Junior Poster in Training
yeah...But it's not a very efficient solution though...To make that much database calls is not really good for the performance of your website.
So i think it would be better to use a javascript solution instead of Ajax.
You can write the date time to a hidden field, and use a javascript function to update every X seconds / minute / ...
Take a look at this link:
http://www.elated.com/articles/creating-a-javascript-clock/
If you enhance this script a bit, you'll get the result you want, with much better performance.
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