Well, really you can't do that. A PHP request only takes interrupt input when
it starts, from the GET, POST, COOKIE, and SESSION magic variables. It
doesn't run as a daemon. A fresh Ajax call to the script starts a new
instance of the script. Fortunately, PHP's engine is fast enough that the
Hi All,
Thanks a lot for your numerous answers.
I've learned a lot from all your suggestions.
Actually, combining all your answers, I'll come up with a solution.
To be more explicit on what I want to do, I want in fact to start a
script, I want that script to
display a page, and then, I want tha
On 11/1/06, David Négrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello there,
I'm having a somewhat unusual question here, and I cannot find any way
to solve it.
I have a PHP page that displays a message, and then, performs a very
long operation. Note that it displays the message first.
I do not intend to
I think the Ajax solution that John suggests is the ticket.
I did something like this for a site that books reservations for various
services. But before the booking can occur, the customer has to get info
on the various service options, which are returned from a separate
database server. Thi
You could also use an Ajax call from the main window to start the
processing without opening a second window.
HTH,
John
Ed Lazor wrote:
Here's another idea:
display your message in the original browser window, launch a new
browser window for the processing script, have the window set behind
Here's another idea:
display your message in the original browser window, launch a new
browser window for the processing script, have the window set behind
the first with javascript. When your script is finished, have it
output javascript that closes the "processing" window.
On Nov 2, 2
> Original Message
> Subject: [PHP] Closing a connection to browser without exiting the
> script
> From: David Négrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, November 01, 2006 2:24 pm
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
>
> Hello there,
>
> I'm having a somewhat unusual question here, and
On Wed, November 1, 2006 3:24 pm, David Négrier wrote:
> I'm having a somewhat unusual question here, and I cannot find any way
> to solve it.
There is no way to do precisely what you are describing.
The best thing to do, imho, is to have the PHP script queue up
something in a datbase, text file,
dejavu!
This thread was just on the mailing list recently... check the
mailing list archives.
-Ed
On Nov 1, 2006, at 1:24 PM, David Négrier wrote:
Hello there,
I'm having a somewhat unusual question here, and I cannot find any
way to solve it.
I have a PHP page that displays a messag
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