displaying a message while uploading

[Anon]

Greeting I wanted to display the message "Uploading file please wait" when
the user clicks on the upload button. I tried to accomplish this with the
following...

The html:

<input type="submit" name="upload" value="Upload">

Then the php:

if($upload)
{
echo "File is being uploaded";
// The rest of the processing code
}

The problem is the message "File is being uploaded" displays after the
file has been uploaded. Is there a way to force the message to disply
before the file gets uploaded?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

[Anon]

You could use JavaScript to do it.

[xgoat]

I think that this is to do with your webserver buffering the content that it is sending - you could use the function flush()

This may not work as you would expect because of the browser buffer - if it doesn't then i would suggest the following:

for($i = 0; $i<256; $i++)
echo " ";

This is because some browsers buffer every 256 characters - if that dont work then try sending an End-Of-Line character (which is what netscape looks for)

Hope that helps.