body onload setinterval

ta_4_me · 03-21-2010, 11:27 AM

I found a little chat script online and I wanted to check it out. When I integrated it into a page I created, for some reason this will not work correctly

<body onload="setInterval('chat.update()', 1000)">

I tested it with two different browswers open

Lets say on two different browser windows you have user1 and user2

if user1 types 'Hello'
it will not show up on user2 window
but if user2 types 'Hi'

then on user2 window it will say
user1 says Hello
user2 says Hi

so basically for user1 to see what user2 has wrote, user1 has to type something first and send it to see what user2 said.

hope you understand, if you would like I could post up the code.

ta_4_me · 03-21-2010, 11:46 AM

I forgot to say that on the original script, within the body tags, there was no PHP code. But on my page, i have php within the body tags, does have anything to do with it?

Philip M · 03-21-2010, 11:54 AM

chat.update is not a valid name for a function (may not contain a dot).
Change it to chat_update.

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ta_4_me · 03-21-2010, 11:55 AM

actually i got rid of the body onload and used a window onload js function and everything seems to be ok now.

ta_4_me · 03-21-2010, 11:56 AM

Here is what the was for

function Chat () {
this.update = updateChat;
this.send = sendChat;
this.getState = getStateOfChat;
}

mrhoo · 03-21-2010, 04:37 PM

Your object was 'Chat.update', not the 'chat.update'-
and you really ought to allow for quitting any timed event,
by giving the timer a reference

Code:

onload= function(){
Chat.timer=setInterval(Chat.update, 1000);
}

//clearInterval(Chat.timer)