Check out http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-flush.php the ob_flush command. You could put an animated gif like an hourglass with a please wait at the beginning of your html output, perform an ob_flush command to put that info out to the browser, then perform your sql. After the sql finishes, output more information, or redirect to another page that says it's done. CAVEAT: Some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer will only start to display the page after they have received 256 bytes of output, so you may need to send extra whitespace before flushing to get those browsers to display the page. Gary Every Sr. UNIX Administrator Ingram Entertainment (615) 287-4876 "Pay It Forward" mailto:gary.every@ingramentertainment.com http://accessingram.com -----Original Message----- From: Aspire Something [mailto:aspire420@hotpop.com] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:49 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Processing Page Hi all, Permit me to recive your valuable knowledge , We are working on a project where the backend churns data for about 1 Minute (time out limit is 2 min) we would like to put a page like PROCESSING .... during the database is busy doing its fine job. And also a sucess page appears when the process is sucessfull. Please if you have any idea how it can be done please let me Humble thanks in advance. We are not using persist connection to postgresql ======= My Sys Looks as ========== Red Hat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.7-10, PHP 4.3.0, GCC 3.02, Apache 1.3.27 , Postgresql 7.3.2, Intel arch i686 . ================================ Regards, Aspire
