i have a website created in joomla 1.5 and i would like to have a desktop notification which would notify every time a visitor visits any of the pages in the website

there are couple of options for creating desktop application like chrome extension, html5, jquery desktop notification plugin

which would be a best option and in order to show this pop up using a specific option would there be a need to access a particular table that records all the visitors to any page of the website

would there be a need to setup a cron job in the templates index.php

which is the best way to go about

Obviously you are not expecting the page to get busy otherwise you would NOT be considering such a thing.

But all you need is a single line of code to send an email each time a page is requested, no need for "cron jobs" or anything.

AND to have something alert you from your desktop it would need to be running on YOUR machine and polling a page on the website every few seconds.

PHP has no way of sending an alert direct to your desktop without a client app telling the server should your IP change and that is listening for a request.

Originally Posted by sudhakararaog

i would like to have a desktop notification which would notify every time a visitor visits any of the pages in the website

Why ?

where you get desktop notification on google or on facebook or what else?