I think the Ajax solution that John suggests is the ticket.
I did something like this for a site that books reservations for various
services. But before the booking can occur, the customer has to get info
on the various service options, which are returned from a separate
database server. This takes time and what the company needed in the
meantime was a message saying that the query was being processed, please
wait. My solution was to print the please wait message to the screen,
while accessing the database using an Ajax call. Since with an Ajax
call you are not waiting for a page to load there's no hour glass or
clock, etc., and from the user's perspective there's a seamless experience.
I used Perl for my server-side script, but if you prefer PHP you can
create a CGI script using PHP and run the same process as your original
PHP page. Just put #!/usr/bin/php at the top of the script, before the
<?php instruction.
Myron
John Comerford wrote:
You could also use an Ajax call from the main window to start the
processing without opening a second window.
HTH,
John
Ed Lazor wrote:
Here's another idea:
I have a PHP page that displays a message, and then, performs a very
long operation. Note that it displays the message first.
I do not intend to give some feedback to the user when the operation is
done.
I've seen I can use ignore_user_abort() to prevent the user from
stopping the ongoing operation, but that solves only part of my
problem.
Because as long as the page is not fully loaded, the mouse cursor in
the
user's browser is showing a watch.
So ideally, what I would like is to be able to close the connection
from
the server-side, but without using the exit() function, so my script
keeps running afterwards.
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