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
s the database query code: echo("processing...please wait"); > > > -Original Message- > > > From: DigitalKoala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:17 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subje

RE: [PHP] flushing contents to the browser

2001-12-12 Thread Johnson, Kirk
nesday, December 12, 2001 2:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] flushing contents to the browser > > > hi folks, > > i'm trying to display something like "processing... please > wait" on a web > page whilst a rather hefty database query is

[PHP] flushing contents to the browser

2001-12-12 Thread DigitalKoala
hi folks, i'm trying to display something like "processing... please wait" on a web page whilst a rather hefty database query is being run. i don't want to refresh the page so i've been attempting to use flush and ob_start, together with some css stuff to try and do this.. but no luck so far - a