Re: [PHP] flushing contents to the browser

2001-12-12 Thread Shane Wright
Hi The most practical thing to do is to do the big db operation in a background process and have an independent page on the browser that automatically refreshes and changes when the job is done. There are 2 issues... 1 - running the background process, there are quite a few ways of doing this

RE: [PHP] flushing contents to the browser

2001-12-12 Thread Johnson, Kirk
> I tried this... it just continually refreshes ... and doesn't > ever re-direct > to my page.. am i missing something? If the URL is correct, it should work. The *first* page should have this code. The variable $query_page contains the URL to the *next* page, which contains the database query

RE: [PHP] flushing contents to the browser

2001-12-12 Thread Johnson, Kirk
If you redirect into the query page using a META refresh, you can display the message: echo("processing... please wait"); The message will display until the query page finishes. Kirk > -Original Message- > From: DigitalKoala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 12,