controling time

[Anon]

Hi!

I'm trying to make an online-game using PHP!

One of my major problems is to pause the script so I can ilusionate that the computer is processing the data at a slower rate than it actualy is doing!

I've found a functioin:

sleep(); yet this function is delaying reading the whole page! What I would like to do is to delay a certain function not the whole script!

Can anybody help me??????

[quicknik]

Hi,

what about displaying a waitpage (with a statusbar as animgif e.g)
and then doing an redirect via metatag to the resultpage ?
The "http-equiv="refresh" content="x" metatag gives you the opportunity to define the
"processing time".

hope in helps,

bye,
Niko

[Anon]

Hi Niko!

It might work I'll give it shot!

thanx!

best wishes
Søren alias [:Z:]

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first
"is to pause the script"

then
"sleep(); yet this function is delaying reading the whole page!"

That is what pausing a script is!

What exactly do you want?

[Anon]

What I would like to do, is to is to delay a function.

Ex.

In a game a player is battling agains a simulated AI. Then to make the player think that the "battle" is running over a certain time I want to delay the function that process the outcome of the choices made by the player!
I'm trying to make a "RISK"like game so when the play is rolling the die he will await the counterattack by the oponent (the script)

I'm also considering combining php with the jascript function setTimeOut yet I don't know if its possible?????