Status page while query running

[jtsheridan]

I am new to both php and mysql, but have been learning a lot from these forums. I am writing a personal card game score card and wondered if there is a way to show a "status" page while the queries run, then re-direct (similar to what Expedia does when searching for airfares). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[sarahk]

I suspect they show the running page before starting the query and at the bottom they use metarefresh/javascript etc to call the real page and pass it the variables.

the status page is probably serverside coded (not static) as it would need to know what data to pass. There are otherways to do this but this would be easier.

eg

<?php

echo "<script>
document.location='gothere.php?id=$id&status=$status'";
</script>";
?>

[jtsheridan]

Thanks for the help, that works wonderfully!