'Searching...' Splash screen

[slap_matlock]

Can anyone give me some information of how some sites have a 'searching...' splash page pop up and then redirect the user to the results page. I know how the redirect works, but I'm curious as to the process behind the scenes. PHPBuilder's forum search is a perfect example.

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This 'please wait' is a cool idea, but it is far cooler to just increase the speed of your search. It often takes longer to load the 'please wait' message than to do the actual search, especially on slow internet connections.

[Bunkermaster]

my answers :

1. javascript(do'h wrong place?)

print the beginning of the page with the "Searching" in a DIV element (set an ID for future use), do the actual search and before outputing the results output a javascript hidding the div...

one thing you might concider is that the NS and IE DOM are different so the javascript hidding the div won't be the same.

2. Temp table(getting closer)

perform your search in the "Searching ..." page. At the end of search generate a temp table with results (beware of table size though) and set a session variable with temp table name or pass it along as query string, whatever. In search result display page, get temp table's name. display it content and delete it...

3. Optimize(my choice)

Optimize your table structure you SQL query and you indexes to speed up the search