status of completion

[sedric1]

I have a long loop that will take a few mins to run- iwas wondering where to look on how to show a 'status' bar- say percentage left or time left or such til it is done.

currently i have a loop reading in a huge file and outputting it to a file after processing.. not sure if this function exists or not.

[TheDefender]

Well, you could put output the loop (or run through the loop, and tell it to output something like every x number of records🙂

10 of 10000 records updated
20 of 10000 records updated
etc....

I think what you want would require some JavaScripting to give a realtime accounting of the looping, which would need to be done client-side.

[sedric1]

ahh ok

then another question. is there a php function that will can 'preread' the number of lines in a file before i loop through it all and process it? i.e. -10 of 10000 - - any functions that can see and return '10,000' before i start my loop.

[TheDefender]

$lines = file('./yourfilehere.txt');
$linecount = count($lines);

This will give you the total number of lines.

[sedric1]

great- that will do it! thanks alot for your help.

[TheDefender]

YW. Have a nice day, and feel free to post back if you need any further assistance. 🙂