Looking at it from the user's perspective, the user enters some URL and gets a page back with a form and a submit button. The user fills out the form and clicks the submit button. The request comes in to you, and you then respond to that request by sending the html I showed earlier. If you have variables you want to pass to what I called process.php, one possibility is to append them to the url, like this:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://yourdomain.com/process.php?name1=value1&name2=value2";> Depending on how secure your data needs to be, this may or may not be acceptable, but it's an option. Bill cliff wrote: >How is this triggered? Is this called by the requesting button/form? If so, >don't you lose the post/get variables? > >On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:10:49 -0500, Bill Kamm wrote > > >>I use the following. It's simple, and it works. It displays the >>message "Please wait while we process your request", and immediately >>redirects to the url that does the actual work. The "processing" >>message will remain on the user's browser until your other php >>script returns data. >> >><html> >><head> >><meta http-equiv="refresh" >>content="0;url=http://yourdomain.com/process.php";> >></head> >> >><body> >><p>Please wait while we process your request...<p /> >></body> >></html> >> >>Bill >> >>Cliff Hirsch wrote: >> >> >> >>>Many web sites display a “processing please wait” page after >>>submitting an order, request, etc. and then display the final >>>confirmation page when it’s available. >>> >>>I’m confused by how that works. Does the server-side script spit out a >>>“processing” page by flushing the output buffer and then redirect when >>>the script is completed? Or does the client-side JavaScript display >>>the “processing” page while the server script goes about its business? >>> >>>Cliff >>> >>> >_______________________________________________ >New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List >http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >http://www.nyphpcon.com > >Show Your Participation in New York PHP >http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > > > > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
