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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/09/08 16:09
Rob wrote:
> On Jan 9, 1:44 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) wrote:
>>> On Jan 8, 6:17 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>>> C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) wrote:
>>>>> On Jan 8, 4:03 pm, thib´ <th...@coralsnake-team.com> wrote:
>>>>>> jodleren wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>> I have never done this before... but I could use it now.
>>>>>>> How do I create a "please wait" page, which will "reload" once my real
>>>>>>> page is ready?
>>>>>>> I am talking of a waiting time of some 10-20 secs, but can be
>>>>>>> worse.... still even 10 secs I'd like something telling the user, that
>>>>>>> data is being processed.
>>>>>>> [like when booking an airline ticket... waiting 2 mins there is
>>>>>>> common]
>>>>>>> Terv
>>>>>>> Sonnich
>>>>>> Output your message, process the info, cache it, html reload, done.
>>>>>> The only problem is that you have to deal carefully with private info,
>>>>>> but it's really affordable.
>>>>>> -thib´
>>>>> You don't actually need to reload - as long as the job will complete
>>>>> before the browser times out, write the 'please' wait inside a div,
>>>>> flush it, then when the final output is ready make the div invisible
>>>>> with javascript.
>>>>> C.
>>>> There is no guarantee the browser will display anything before all
>>>> output is sent.
>>> True - but it works on every browser I've tested (MSIE, Firefox,
>>> Konqueror)...and of course its dependant on having a webserver capable
>>> of generating chunked encoding.
>>> Perhaps I should say YMMV.
>>> C.
>> Yep, there are three possible reasons for this not being displayed:
>>
>> 1. PHP buffers may not be full (but can be flushed manually)
>> 2. Web server buffers may not be full (no control but often flushed when
>> you flush the php buffers)
>> 3. The browser may get the data but not display it.
>>
>> Like you, I've found generally it works. But not necessarily always.
>>
>> Now it may be OK with the op if the message only shows 95% of the time
>> and misses 5% of the customers. I mean - a "please wait" isn't the most
>> important message in the world :-).
>>
>> But if he does want it to show up 100% of the time, he should be looking
>> at the other methods proposed here.
>>
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> Have to agree with Jerry here. I've had very mixed results with
> browsers displaying the content before the whole page has finished
> loading, even after using flush techniques.
>
> One way to help the browser along is to output a stream of data that
> causes it to flush it's own buffers, such as a stream of HTML
> comments.
>
> Rob.
>
Good point, Rob.
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