Coding Website - live editing text

[_Oplex_]

So lets say i have 2 people. And they both go on the same page. All they see is a empty textArea. If person1 would edit the text i want to also change the text on person2 screen. First i want to try simple ajax, but that is just not a good solution.
Now im thinking about a server side event. Would that work? I googled about it and it looks good to me. But are there any other things i can try?
It can be simple or complex.

 

[DrHam]

Like a chat?
Ajax is a nice, simple solution iirc

How would you implement a server side solution for “live changes” without refreshing?

Don’t take my advice as something 101% correct

 

[_Oplex_]

Like a chat?
Ajax is a nice, simple solution iirc

How would you implement a server side solution for “live changes” without refreshing?

Don’t take my advice as something 101% correct

With a server side event. https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_sse

And its not a chat. Its more like a google doc. That multiple people can edit at the same time

 

[DrHam]

With a server side event. https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_sse

That’s nice, but how would you message to the server w/o reloading?

Oh, and I found this. It might be useful, in case you haven’t seen it yet: http://www.laktek.com/2010/05/25/real-time-collaborative-editing-with-websockets-node-js-redis/ yes, I know it kinda old

 

[Max ♠]

Now im thinking about a server side event. Would that work? I googled about it and it looks good to me. But are there any other things i can try?
It can be simple or complex.

SSE seems to be the best option, wouldnt recommend PHP for this however, Node seems like a much better fit

Something janky with ajax could also work, although like you said, not the best option.

There's also a library for SSE in PHP, don't know how well it works, https://github.com/licson0729/libSSE-php

 

[_Oplex_]

Node seems like a much better fit

Yep, that would be great. but the server i want to host this on has also a mail client on it. I am not that experienced with setting up such thing with ports etc. I am now using socket.io and that is actually what i want. It works fast and easy.

im just making it. and the server would be a problem on a later stage. thx @A Christmas Hangar and @zivdnaL

 

[LazosPlaying]

Yeah you should use sockets for that. xhr requests are totally not the answer for "live editing" because they open a new connection every time they fire while with sockets you basically have one unclosed connection. Keep us updated on how things go ^-^