What you want to do is post the form, display a searching screen, and then on that same screen... well, like this, I think:
<form target=<?= $PHP_SELF; ?>>
<input type=text name=foo>
<input type=submit name=submit value=Submit>
</form>
<? if ($Submit) {
echo "Searching.<br>\n";
go_go_gadget_query();
// above line takes a while but the aboev is already echoed so
// they wait
display_results();
}
?>
Regards,
Ian Samuel
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>Subject: [PHP] Intermediate "Searching..." screen.
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>
>I have a part of my site that searches a large database and
>sometimes it
>takes more than a few seconds to return the results. When
>searches take
>longer, people get antsy and search again. To let them know that the
>search is working so they don't double efforts I'd like to have an
>intermediate "Searching..." screen.
>
>I don't have a good idea on how to do this and I'm looking for some
>ideas or directions. How do I show one thing while the search
>is running
>and another when the search is complete and also not loose the returned
>record set?
>
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>Jeff Bearer, RHCE
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