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BuddyJoe
BuddyJoe

Reputation: 71111

jQuery - Notification Library - polling

Is there a notification library written for jQuery already? One that would provide dropdown messages similar to the way StackOverflow does it.

Looking for something that:
1) Polls every couple of seconds (maybe option to do Comet)
2) Has a mark-as-read call (noticed StackOverflow does this via a POST request)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1023

Answers (4)

Terry Lewis
Terry Lewis

Reputation: 407

It's been awhile since this was asked, but for future reference, check out Pines Notify at http://pinesframework.org/pnotify/.

If you're using .NET, then check out SignalR as well at http://signalr.net/.

Pines Notify gives you javascript-based pop-up notifications. You can theme the popups using either jQueryUI or BootStrap, and can provide either blocking or non-blocking notifications.

SignalR handles the communications side. It's extremely flexible and very simple to use. It allows you to call javascript methods from .NET, and .NET methods from javascript.

Put them together, and you've got a very nice notification package with very little work.

Upvotes: 1

webwurst
webwurst

Reputation: 4950

Have a look at Socket.IO. It uses Node-js on the server side, but you may use the javascript-client socket.io.js independently.

It chooses the best transport available in the browser and gives you a nice api based on an event-system.

There is also a list of server implementations in different programming languages in the wiki.

Upvotes: 1

genesis
genesis

Reputation: 50976

Why would you need library??

client-side

<script>
setInterval(function(){
      $.getScript({url:"news.php"});
}, 10000);
</script>

server-side

<?php
$data = newdata();
if ($data)
{
   echo "alert('new data avaible');";
}

?>

button to mark as read:

server-side

<?php
mark_as_read($_GET['id']);

client-side

<script>
function mark_as_read(markID){
     $.ajax({"url": "mark_as_read.php?id="+markID"});

}
</script>

Upvotes: 3

Caimen
Caimen

Reputation: 2619

Not that I know of. Half of the work will need to be done on the server side anyways. I made a MUD in with JQuery/Asp.NETC# here at http://www.strategynerd.com/sngames

It shows a basic polling method. Since it uses live communication it polls quickly, but the less active you are the slower the polling starts to go. Comet and long polling are obviously much better than this method though.

Upvotes: 0

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