Invoking a PHP script from a MySQL trigger

Question

Is there any way how to invoke a PHP page / function when a record is inserted to a MySQL database table? We don\'t have control over the record insertion procedure. Is ther

Answer 1

In order to get a notification from the database I wrote a command line script using websocket to check for the latest updated timestamp every second. This ran as an infinite loop on the server. If there is a change all connected clients will can be sent a notification.