How can I refresh a page when a database is updated(Laravel)?

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How can I refresh a page when a database is updated in Laravel?

Like earlier one asked: you need to be more specific. If you don't have access to your database completely - that's one case, and I doubt, that anything could be done. If it's just a part of page that you want to refresh using ajax, then you could return some default value based on request timeout. — arunas_t, Jun 20 '16 at 22:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

Thats a rough...open ended question. But here's a stab at it.

Often - the client makes requests to the server to receive state information. Often its referred to as "client-server architecture" (somewhat erroneously imo).

E.g - Timmy refreshes his webpage and sees different content because the content has changed since the last time he made a request to the server.

Typically - when you want to have a server-client (again...not entirely accurate use of the term) style of communication it requires you to have a socket open with that client. Seeing how you mentioned Laravel, see: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/step-by-step-guide-to-installing-socketio-and-broadcasting-events-with-laravel-51

Socket libraries often have an "event emitting/broadcasting" behavior. This would allow you to achieve something like notifying a given client that something has changed in your database :)

Other resources:

Does anybody still use Client Server Architecture

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_sockets/what_is_socket.htm

What is the difference between a web application and a client/server application?

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 20 '16 at 22:50

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Not 100% sure what you need but you probably should to go with Javascript - using AJAX to monitor your tables with certain intervals, and the reload the page when your criteria is met.

answered Jun 20 '16 at 22:50

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