Programming a multiplayer game with a PhP/MySQL server, and JavaScript/jQuery clients

Here is the situation. I would like to develop a game based on content delivered by MediaWiki. MediaWiki i开发者_运维技巧s PhP based and has MySQL as database. So far, I did the client side animations using JavaScript and jQuery.

The game doesn't have to be strictly real-time. I simply want to be notified when the person I am playing against makes a move, within a second or two.

Do you have suggestions about suitable approaches I might want to consider?

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