Creating a desktop live score widget?

We are php scripters…
we have every thing setup and have live text scores(updated every 30 seconds) in mysql database …

now we can to create desktop widget …or kind of widget which remains in users desktop which retrives live or latest scores from our database…

can php help us to do it…
Most simple ,we can have java appalet or jquery popup boxes…but not sure how to start it or refresh it every minutes…or start it when computer starts…
and it doesnt seems professional as well…

any thoughts or help

thanks

well i have been doing bit of flex…which seems to have something to take with adobe air as welll

any tutorial or example for my need?

thanks

Pick a web-service (SOAP/REST) and take a look at Adobe Air, it’s cross platform and fairly easy to implement.

Whenever it comes about desktop type application in PHP, always Web Services comes into my mind.
Why not go with SOAP?

Make a webservice for desktop apps, no matter in what language the desktop app is made up of.

Thanks

You can create a screelet in linux with python. It is fairly simple to code and package screenlets.

That depends on the platform, really. Windows Vista and 7 gadgets can be written pretty much entirely in HTML and Javascript, which you can then use to make AJAX calls to get data from the server.
More info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163370.aspx

This solution won’t help if you need this to be available on Windows XP or linux.
I’m not familiar with what MacOS has available as far as that goes, but this will get you some support for modern windows machines which is a good starting point.