Please wait message

[vaso]

I have a script, now i am testing, and while all the query are runnig, that is take some time. I want to put a Please wait message, while my whole page is ready.

How can i do it, what should i search in help ?

Vaso

[floR]

What you possibly want is to turn on flushing. I have done this a couple of years (...) ago in Perl with
$|=1
This causes the output to be directly sent to the client before the rest of the page is finished. Don't know if it will work in PHP, but you might want to search for 'flushing' in the documentation.

(a little later....)
I have done a search for flushing myself and came up with
flush()
According to the doc, this does exactly the same thing. You might want to try this.

[vaso]

thx, i will check it.

Vaso

[vaso]

Nope..

I don't want to show the page, while do whole page is ready.
As i saw, this flush function is to write everything to output exactly, and don't wait to </table> or another tags like this.

Vaso

[floR]

What if you buffer the rest of the output by PHP while only displaying a ' please wait' message? Something like this:

<?
flush();

echo("<p>Please wait a while...</p>");

$output = "";
while (something) {
$output .= doStuff();
}

echo $output;
?>

This way you only see the wait message and the complete output is written at once when it's finished. ...or?

[edspace]

If u are using modgzip u need to disable it before u can use flush. I think there is a way to disable it for certain directories using htaccess files.

[vaso]

Thx Flor, it's working fine.

Vaso