On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
Greetings, I'm relatively new to PHP and I've been lurking for a
while on
the list, but now I need a pointer or two.
I have an application which has one function that does a lengthy
process
(installing a piece of software) and I don't want the user to panic
thinking
nothing is going on. So I want to put up a 'working' box or a
progress bar.
I have no idea how to do that. I haven't dipped my toes into pear
yet. I
don't even know how to install or use a pear module. If there is
something
available that doesn't require pear knowledge so much the better, I
guess,
but if this is the straw that gets me into pear, so be it.
So if someone could point me in the right direction I'd really
appreciate
it.
Hi Steve,
From my understanding of how PHP works and from reading the archives
of this list, and asking quite a few questions my self.. You can't do
a progress bar in PHP since by the time it gets to the browser, PHP is
done doing what it does. I don't know about pear, but I know lots of
people have used AJAX progress bars to tell the user what's going on.
Hopefully someone can fill in the blanks for you... Just thought I
would share my knowledge a little bit :)
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