Scoreboard/Standings?

[username007]

I'm making a website that will allow people to post their current high score of a game onto the page, and it would be displayed on the site in real time. I have NO idea how to accomplish this.

Here's the idea:
It's a virtual pinball game, the highest score wins. The player gets the highest current score, and types in his name and score. The page then updates and shows his name and score on the site and everyone now knows the new score to beat. If someone puts a lower score than the one already posted, the site either ignores it, or puts it in the correct spot on the standings.

I was told to use php and asp to do this. Right? Will ASP work on a free host like geocities?

Help?

Thanks!

[Musicman]

Hi,

free hosts hardly ever run asp - your chances with php are better (but I recall bad performance from geocities... this may have changed)
Your proposal looks like a push service (which is not possible on a normal webserver, even a paid one). The alternative is polling ... when many clients do it  in rapid succession, the webhost does not like you : so you have to find a pollrate that is tolerable by the game and the server

Musicman