As a suggestion you could store a progress of the function in the session
and make regular calls via ajax back to the server for the progress.

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/James

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Steve Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Greetings, I'm relatively new to PHP and I've been lurking for a while on
> the list, but now I need a pointer or two.
> I have an application which has one function that does a lengthy process
> (installing a piece of software) and I don't want the user to panic
> thinking
> nothing is going on. So I want to put up a 'working' box or a progress
> bar.
> I have no idea how to do that. I haven't dipped my toes into pear yet. I
> don't even know how to install or use a pear module. If there is something
> available that doesn't require pear knowledge so much the better, I guess,
> but if this is the straw that gets me into pear, so be it.
> So if someone could point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate
> it.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Holmes
> Purdue University
>

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