please wait script

jomns

I would like to write a script that while the user have submitted some form, tells him that the form is being processed. Something like when you're loging in the forum of this site and tells you to wait while your post is being processed. I think this is nice specially for queries in databases when more than one user is updating or reading data from.

I don't know how to start. Does somebody has a script that does this or an idea of how to start and inplement this.

Thanks,

Jonathan

weekender

not exactly what you're after, but you can change the button label to say please wait using DHTML

like this...

<FORM NAME="thisform" ... >
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submit" VALUE="Submit" ONCLICK="submit.value='Please wait...'; thisform.submit();">

jomns

I have tried your approach but this didn't work.
What I am looking for is a script to display "page loading" while the data of my database is being gathered to be displayed. So when the query is finished the text "page loading" disapears and the data from the specific query is displayed. I would like to use it for my guestbook

I believed this must be done with javascript and a combination of php. I looked for it every where and I found out that I am not the only one with the same unanswered question.

I hope there is there who knows the answer.

Thanks anyway!!!
Jonathan

AstroTeg

I was at a place that needed to have this done. We didn't have consistent results when we tried producing a "please wait" page itself. What we found worked really well was a pop up window which was just an HTML page in a new window. This window would say something like "Loading. Please wait..." and we put an animated GIF in it (oh yeah - we wanted the animated GIF to run but when a new page has been requested, IE stops running animated GIFs so thats why we did the pop up window).

We launched the pop up window when the user hit submit. And then on the results page we called a function to close the window in the "onLoad=" in the body tag.

If the user didn't have JavaScript, it wasn't a big deal and the page did load.

I have seen this done with DHTML - and I might have done it back in the day. For the DHTML to work, the user will definitely need JavaScript enabled and working around that became tough. But it is an option.

jomns

thanks for your answer, but I don't know much about Javascript or DHTML.
Do you have the code of this implementation perhaps?

Thanks,

Jonathan

weekender

apart from joms method the only other way i can think of doing this is to have a DHTML layer with a high z-index (ie appears on top of everything else), which is hidden by default until the submit button is hit.

try somewhere like the forums over at DHTMLcentral - this is a DHTML/jsp problem, so PHP geeks might not be the best help...

adam