You could, in theory, submit your query to an intermediate file, which only displays the "Searching" screen, but is querying your database and throwing everything you need into hidden fields in a form. Then have that form have an onLoad submit to your results page.
I did this with HTML submitting to Perl submitting to PHP until we got the PHP/DB problems worked out. Here's what I wrote: print "<html><head></head><body onload=\"document.HiddenForm.submit()\" >"; print "Page is loading, please wait"; print "<form name=\"HiddenForm\" method=\"POST\" action=\"../../joinpoint/joinpoint.withimage.php\">"; print $hiddenData; print "</form></body></html>"; $hiddenData contained all of the values, in hidden data form, that I was sending to my action script. Good luck! There is probably an easier way than this, but if no one else comes up with it, at least you have something. -Natalie -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Bearer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:24 PM To: Php-General (E-mail) Subject: [PHP] Intermediate "Searching..." screen. 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? -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster PittsburghLIVE.com 2002 EPpy Award, Best Online U.S. Newspaper -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
