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Posted by lakindujayathilaka
lakindujayathilaka
15,244 Points

How to create an endless newsfeed when scrolling down.

I am almost donw with my social network...but having some issues in creating an endless newsfeed of posts where the users can see the old posts while scrolling down

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
19,652 Points
Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
19,652 Points

What language are you looking to do this in?

lakindujayathilaka
lakindujayathilaka
15,244 Points

as i told u i am doing everything in php

1 Answer

Christopher Misa
Christopher Misa
6,467 Points
Christopher Misa
Christopher Misa
6,467 Points

You'll need to use a client-side language like javascript to check on the user's scrolling. Some thing like this:

window.onscroll = function() { if(window.scrollY >= (document.body.offsetHeight - window.innerHeight)) { /* request more content probably using AJAX */ } };

I'm not sure if there's a way to do this only using PHP.

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
19,652 Points
Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
19,652 Points

AJAX will be needed if you want to do this I think, unless there is a way to do this in PHP but I have never seen something like it. Christopher is right.

lakindujayathilaka
lakindujayathilaka
15,244 Points

good good...i did it :)

thanks for helping