I think one solution was to use CSS and DHTML to display the wait message as a separate page in a <div> on the current page. Once the processing is done, the page will finished loading and the wait message will be hidden. Unfortunately, I don't think you can use this technique without javascript. But, I think it will work if javascript is not enabled, the user just won't see the wait message.
On Nov 5, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Graham Cossey wrote:
[snip]On a number of sites a message and/or graphic is displayed asking you to
wait or be patient whilst some processing is being performed to
compose the
next page.
How are these done within PHP scripts? Could output buffering be used for this purpose? For example is it possible to do something like:
[snip]
Does anyone have any ideas on this?
I do not really want to use META refresh as my understanding is that this
either reloads the same page (loop?) or a new page, which I don't see
working as I want the "Please wait.." to remain until the processing has
finished, not for a fixed period of time as the report may take 10 seconds
or one minute to complete running.
I want to avoid Javascript if at all possible, as I cannot guarantee it being available on the client.
I have managed to use flush() to display some text, but after processing (or
sleep) I cannot 'overwrite' this only add to it.
Any help much appreciated...
Graham
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