PHP? Javascript? Or both?

ktsirig

Hi all!
I have a php page which contains a form. The user enters data and then the data is processed to give some results. What I would like to have is a page inbetween, that says, for instance, "Your job is being processed" or something similar, and then, when the job is done, refresh itself to show the results. I have seen it in many websites, but I don't know what I need to get me started...

DevlshOne

I would suggest an intermediary JS script called from the onSubmit event with a document.write('Your information is being processed'); followed by a redirect to the page with the results of the submitted form.

MarkR

You could certainly do this with Javascript in an onsubmit event. However, document.write() would probably not accomplish anything useful- you're better off using some DOM methods to make a pre-existing element become visible.

Mark

ktsirig

Hi, thank you all for your time!
Actually, what I do is not just take user's input and print it, but i use the data which the user sends as input to an external program that I call through PHP. This program is a bit slow, so I thought of using such a page (not a very complicated one) so that the user will see a message like "Jour job is being processed", and then, when the job is done, the page will refresh and show the results or will redirect to the results page.
I will check on what you suggested... Should you think of anything else, pls write it down! Thank you very much!

Oni

You could try this:

//Very beginning of long processing code
print "Your job is being processed<BR>";
flush();
ob_flush();
//Do the processing 
//print "Processed";

This would return a result like this:

When site is immedeatly accessed a "Job being processed" line will be seen. After a few seconds (Processed) will come up right after the first line.

But please note that if the processing takes more then ~30 seconds then the browser might stop loading. To keep the browser listening for the site, send a character once in a while to the browser.