How to clear/remove/edit echo in PHP

Question

For my website I echo out $players. The problem is that this instead of replacing the echo it creates a new one. How can i clear the old echo or delete the old one or edit it so it only has one echo shown.

If you don't understand what I mean (I don't blame you), this is the website:

Page Of Site

Code:

while(isset($_GET['hello'])) {
         sleep(1);
        $result = $conn->query("SELECT id FROM gamecode WHERE gamecode = '$gameCode'"); 
      $players = $result->num_rows; 
    echo "<h4>$players Players</h4>";
    flush();
}

Thank you so much for any help you give me.

Answer 1

You will need both server side (PHP) and client side (javascript) to achieve this goal.

Server side: only echo once, discard the while loop;

Client side: call server side (ajax or refresh the whole page) every n second to get the latest data.

Example:

(1) Create a new php file "nowStat.php", and move your db query into this file, like:

$result = $conn->query("SELECT id FROM gamecode WHERE gamecode = '$gameCode'"); 
$players = $result->num_rows; 
echo "$players Players";

(2) In your createcode.php file, define an empty <h4> or <div> with an id:

<h4 id="playerStatus"></h4>

Then in the same file use jQuery/Ajax to retrieve the status every 5 sec:

setInterval(function() { $("#playerStatus").load("nowStat.php"); }, 5000); 

Here is a very simple tutorial about jQuery/Ajax: https://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ajax_intro.asp

Answer 2

在while循环中删除echo语句，因为只要hello ，代码就会始终被触发