Some php pages don't finish loading...

Hexxx

Ok, I have this problem and I am really not sure what is causing it.

When some of my PHP pages load, the status bar down at the bottom of the browser says it is still waiting for 1 item to load and the progress bar isn't filled up, when it should really be saying 'done'. I can use the pages and they 'look' fully loaded.

If I refresh the pages it says done though without the 1 item waiting....
I checked my pages (it happens on a couple of them) for any unclosed tags, but didn't see any open or strange/overlapping tags.

bradgrafelman

Can you give us a link to a page that does this? Sounds like a client-side problem.

Hexxx

unfortunately I don't have it on the web yet (as it is a Uni project and I am still testing it, and they didn't want to pay for hosting from now). I'll try accessing it from other machine like you suggested (when I figure out how to get WAMP5 to put it online.) I know that if I remove any of the mysql code at the beginning of the page it loads normally, but that could just be a coincedence (like pressing the refresh button would make it load normal too).

Hexxx

Ok I realized that most (but not all the pages that were doing this were php pages with sessions). However, one other page, which is really only a pure index.htm page is also exhibiting this never finish loading behaviour. the problem with this is the page is a intro page which meta refreshes after 10 seconds, but becuase the page doesn't always finish loading, it doesn't refresh, which would be leaving the customer watching the same intro a loop unless he refreshes the page. Any idea what is causing some of the pages to not finish load?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Refresh CONTENT="10; URL=main.htm">
</head>
<body>

<table CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0" STYLE="background-color: black; width: 100%; height: 90%; text-align: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; color: black;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<object classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000
codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,2,0 width=100% height=600>
<param name=movie value=confetti.swf>
<param name=quality value=high>
<param name=BGCOLOR value=#000000>
<param name=SCALE value=noborder>
<embed src=confetti.swf quality=high
pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash type=application/x-shockwave-flash
width=100% height=100% bgcolor=#000000 scale= showall>
</embed>
</object>

<script TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="ieupdate.js"></script>
</td></tr>
<tr><td> <a HREF="main.htm" STYLE="text-decoration:none; color:#666666">Skip intro</a></td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>

</body>
</html>

Hexxx

Just for some more info, the ieupdate.js is this code, which is to prevent IE from displaying the 'safety' click here to run this control for shockwave content.

objects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++)
{
    objects[i].outerHTML = objects[i].outerHTML;
}

And that is actually on mostly all the other pages too, except the flash menu's are different.

By the way, are JS scripts parsed before any of the page is loaded? Or only as they are encoutered when the page starts loading?

Hexxx

Okay I think I found out why (at least I hope so).
I had a semi colon between commands when I shouldn't have.

onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor = 'Silver'" ;

That semi colon isn't suppose to be there.