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Database Event to update client

 
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I am not sure to write in the correct area because my problem is not properly related with database anyway i will try :-)
I have a mysql database connected to a simulator generating data associated with the behaviour of an electric circuit, I would like to know if it exists the way to "mimic" such electrical circuit in a web page and the possibility to connect a circuit component with a certain parameter in the database that the simulator can change.
For example in the database I have the parameter A1, I am going to build a circuit in a web page and I associate to a certain circuit object the db parameter A1. When the simulator is running a new value of A1 is generated an event is sent to the "mimic"object associated with this parameter and the object changes color or update a label or something similar. Someone can help me with examples or articles to understand at least the technologies to be used.

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I'm not sure what forum it belongs in yet either. I put it in a few so we can figure it out once you start getting replies.

I'm not sue what you mean by "mimic". Like a diagram?
 
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If you can have the simulator send a message to the object, that might not be too hard. If you wanted to have a change in the database cause the message to be sent, then that would be a lot harder. But your description doesn't tell me which of those two things you had in mind, or even whether you had something else in mind.
 
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Well currently the simulator generates data to be inserted in the DB. such data are typically par1=2, par2=ON etc. The simulator generates some inserts in the DB and the tables (organized for parameter type: int,double,string ecc.) are 3 columns (parameter_name, date, value).
The improvement could be the association between a certain parameter with an event. It means I can register for a list of parameters (par1,par2, par3) and when one parameter, in the list, changes its value an event is launched and (final step) its representation is modified.
For example if I associate a par1 (with possible values 1 and 0) to a traffic light, and I'm registering for it, every time a new instance of par1 is received a notification is sent and the traffic light representation changes its color.
I imagine I can build the "circuit" using something like a javascript library defining the components and so on, but I have no idea how to connect and notify changes in the database with javascript events.

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