Loading Page?

[LordShryku]

Okay now, I'm not sure how to finish this, and I could use some suggestions....

I have a php page that is doing a fairly large database select query, and this thing usually takes around 30 seconds to finish. So I'm thinking I should make a loading page of some kind. So I went and made a cool Flash page to display while the page is loading. Now I'm not real sure about how to fuse the two together. Is it better to do a redirect after the page is loaded? If so, how would you load the page and redirect only once everything is ready?

[DigitalExpl0it]

humm maybe popup a window with the page like a little window in the center of the screen.. then when the page is done have it send a varible or somthing to the page to close, then redirect...
sorry if this wasnt that much help

[LordShryku]

Hrmm....so would you have the popup do a auto-refresh every couple of seconds so that when the page does get the variable, I could call a javascript window.close function?