Re: [nyphp-talk] Please wait, processing, message technique

2007-07-13 Thread Cliff Hirsch
On 7/12/07 10:22 PM, "Brent Baisley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you can rely on Javascript being present and enabled, with the all the > web 2.0 stuff out there it just about has to be. > > When I needed to run something long, I've run it in the background using the > exec command. If y

Re: [nyphp-talk] Please wait, processing, message technique

2007-07-12 Thread Brent Baisley
I think you can rely on Javascript being present and enabled, with the all the web 2.0 stuff out there it just about has to be. When I needed to run something long, I've run it in the background using the exec command. If you have command line php enabled, this could be just another php scr

Re: [nyphp-talk] Please wait, processing, message technique

2007-07-11 Thread Thomas O'Neill
I did something like what you see on orbitz. Check it out.. http://tconeill.com/examples/pixelcrunch/ On 7/10/07, Tim Lieberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Never really thought about it. If your backend processes is asynchronous (or if you make it so) you could have your "progress" script j

Re: [nyphp-talk] Please wait, processing, message technique

2007-07-10 Thread Tim Lieberman
Never really thought about it. If your backend processes is asynchronous (or if you make it so) you could have your "progress" script just meta refresh until the back-end has a result, and then on the next refresh, 302 out of there. Cliff Hirsch wrote: For long and indeterminate page processi

[nyphp-talk] Please wait, processing, message technique

2007-07-10 Thread Cliff Hirsch
For long and indeterminate page processing, like connecting with a credit card payment gateway or calculating pi to thousands of significant digits, what is your preferred method for displaying ³please wait²? I see two techniques: 1. Use Javascript upon form submission to display the ³please wait²