two things at once?

[Anon]

I have a form for user input that will query a MySql database to get some data.
I need to send this data to a page called data.php so I can make a graph.
I am having trouble getting the data into graph.php and show the graph at the same time, because to see the graph I have to use another page that calls it up as an <img src="php.graph">.

How do I do both things at the same time?

[Anon]

You'd have to do some sort of redirect to the page that displays the page.

So you could do

header ("Location: http://www.domain.ext/showgraph.php");

and that redirects automatically, before you call that line, run the inserting portion of your script.

The other method I would say would be to use a meta tag to redirect. This way you could put like "Generating your graph.. please wait"

You also might be able to try to stall your script to wait with sleep(). So put the insert code above, then sleep() for a second or two below.

I hope I helped... good luck

-Justin