Is bandwidth an issue?
If not, you could have a <div> at the top of your page, flush it before
beginning your data parsing, and update it with a table with two columns, 1
with a bgcolor of some color, the other with no bgcolor, and have the width
of the columns change as the javascript updates it.
i.e.
<div id="statusDiv"> </div>
<?
flush();
$last_percent = -1 /** This forces an update on the first run of the
loop **/
while ($parsing)
{
$percent = $some / $calculation;
$percent = number_format($percent,2); /** 2 dec places, ie count by
1% increments, use 3 for 0.1% inc) **/
if ($percent != $last_percent)
{
$last_percent = $percent;
$leftwidth = 300*$percent;
$rightwidth = 300 - $leftwidth;
$table_output = "
<table width=300 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0
style=\"table-layout:fixed\">
<tr>
<td width=$leftwidth bgcolor=0000FF> </td>
<td width=$rightwidth> </td>
</tr>
</table>";
echo("
<script>statusDiv.innerHTML =
'".addslashes(str_replace("\n","",$table_output))."';</script>");
flush();
}
}
?>
Replace constants as required, add a formatted output of the percent
complete or any other text you want, but basically that will do it.
Bear in mind it will use quite a lot of bandwidth, so keep an eye on your
significant digits after you calc the percent.
Matt
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From: Edward Peloke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [PHP] progress page
> I am working on an application that will take data from the user and run
> then check through all the data to find matches. Instead of the user
seeing
> a blank screen while the page is loading, I would like to pop up a page
that
> says, processing, please wait and maybe have an icon like a progress bar
or
> something. How do I pop up a page and have it disappear when the the
other
> page is done loading?
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> Thanks,
> Eddie
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