[king213]

I am in the process of creating a website that is associated with a local community radio station with which I am involved. I would like to add the functionality whereby a visitor can see who is actually on-air at the time of their visit to my pages. This could be in the form of perhaps a static or flashing/scrolling text message. Obviously the message would need to update each time the presenter changes. The presenter rota is pretty much the same each week, so any updating should only need to be done now and then.

How would I best achieve this effect? Would I looking to use Javascript, Java Applets, or ???

Any software/script must be easy for me to understand, use, update. Where would I get such a script and what would I look for (names etc).

Do any scripts work in real time?

Can you also tell me where I would get a Javascript that would display a real-time clock/weather forecast etc?? Once again, must be simple to include into my site, as I am only a novice when it comes to things like this.

Hope you are able to assist.

[marcamos]

While I cannot point you to any one script, as I haven't used a script like this, I can say it won't be javascript-based. It will either be PHP, ASP, JSP, etc. (a server-side language), because the script itself will likely be based on the time-of-day, and if you were to use javascript, you'd be at the whim of the client's browser, and of course, their computer's clock.

Whereas server-side (PHP, ASP, JSP, etc.), you have the ability to use the server's clock, and of course it wouldn't matter what time-zone the visitor is from, because you're basing the script off your own clock (the server's clock, actually), and not the varying clocks of your site's visitors.

So, while I cannot give you a specific script (because I haven't the foggiest idea), I can at least point you in the right direction

[king213]

Thanks for that. What you say makes perfect sense. Thought it may be a tricky one. I guess I'll have to research this a bit more.