I was wondering, Yahoo's finance has live stock quotes so I guess there is some action running with the page to ask the server for updated quotes and post them in the appropriate spot.
Is this a complicated project to bring up?
I can get a stock ticker and feed the data to database then the page can ask the database periodically for updated price information as it comes in.
Given all of the world's stock exchanges I can see several databases in use for server tables. I do not see a big problem with 20 data streams outside a lot of bandwidth to keep up.
I assume PHP can cope with multiple servers as needed for load distribution.
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Re: Live web page
Use Javascript to ask for updated stock quote data on a timed interval. And yes, PHP can be used on multiple servers -- see database sessions and memcached.
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