[PHP] What are you using for please wait?

2002-02-14 Thread Bill . Hoffman

   I would just like to see how people are handling long running PHP 
scripts.  I have been using a page in the middle that says please wait 
and then using a META tag that forwards the user on to the intended page. 
This has been working well up until now.  I now have a page that is 
posting an array on to the next page. The array can have as many 1500 
elements pulled from a database.  It works fine when I post directly to 
destination page. The problem is that the query can take up to 2 minutes 
and the I am not giving the user any indication as to what is going on.  I 
can't figure out how to pass the array on to the destination page with a 
forward page in the middle.  I have used hidden values for this in the 
past but 1500 hiddens seems schlocky.  I am now looking into a possilbe 
other method for letting the users know it will be a minute with the 
middle forward page. I have found a few javascript loading functions but 
have not been able to implement them successfully.

Please E-mail directly if you are using a more elegant solution.


Thanx in advance,

PHP is better then Elvis

BEH


Re: [PHP] What are you using for please wait?

2002-02-14 Thread Erik Price


On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 09:39  AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 and the I am not giving the user any indication as to what is going on.


Distract the user with a flash animation (say, a status bar or 
something) stored in cache on prior page.

;)




Erik





Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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