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Posted by Jonathan Sharrock
Jonathan Sharrock
2,577 Points

Social Media timelines?

Hi guys,

How would one go about creating a timeline like what Facebook and Twitter have?

What programming language would you use for it to keep expanding as you scroll down the page etc? I know you need a back-end like PHP to store the posts but is the front-end just html/css or is there some JavaScript at work?

I hope you understand what I mean :)

Cheers guys

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Definitely javascript involved for the endless page feature like both Facebook and Twitter have. Basically, use javascript to know when the user is getting close to the bottom of the page, which triggers an ajax call to the server, requesting the next batch of posts. The server responds and passes back all of the data for the next posts, and ajax loads them back to the page as html, hopefully before the user gets to the bottom.