PHP Includes on Page Load

[tzflorida]

Hi,

I am fairly new to PHP and have the following problem:

I need some help with the coding for PHP includes. I am trying to get a simple include: <?php require("nav.php") ?> to load after the page itself has been completely loaded.

Do I have to use the sleep() function for that? If yes, how exactly would my coding have to look in order to work.

The reason I would want to have a delay in a PHP include, is because I would like to have the basic page load first, so the visitor can start reading, etc. and then have some larger files load while the visitor is reading. I assuming, this would decrease page load time by having larger items load while the basic page has already been loaded.

Is this possible? I hope it makes sense.

Thank you for all of your help in advance. 🙂

[HalfaBee]

You would have to do this in javascript not php.

[Horizon88]

PHP processes everything before the page gets rendered and sent to the browser, so in short, you can't do it with just php code. Sleep would just make it hang however long you specify. You'll need to use ajax in some way, which I'm entirely unfamiliar with.

Edit: Gah, beat me to it 😛