On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:43:07AM -0700, bruce wrote:
> hi..
>
> if you have an action that the server is performing, and the action is going
> to take some amount of time, then you're going to need to provide some form
> of "progress" bar, that's a function of jscript/ajax on the client side...
>
> you can't use just php, as php runs on the server, which is where your
> action is also running. the unfortunate situation is that a php 'progress
> bar' wouldn't be invoked until after the action has completed... unless you
> had a periodic timer within the "action" that periodically displayed
> something to the page (which could be possible)
>
>
> action
> {
> loop through the action/task
> do some events
> display "x" //for progress bar
> continue with the event processing
> end loop
> }
>
> the other, probably better option would be to have a progress area, that
> was/is a jscript/ajax based, that talked/polled the server to determine the
> overall status of the "action" as it's being performed.
>
> what did a google search on php/ajax progress bar return?
>
> peace
>
Or the name of the file, kind of like a log.
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