Posted by Laurent Haan on 10/25/06 20:04

This effect can't be realised by only using PHP, since PHP is a
server-side language and the loading screen appears client side.
Yet, it is possible to achieve such an effect by using javascript and
CSS and having php invoke the necessary functions to enable/disable the
loading screen.

What you need to do is design the loading screen in css and hide it
initially. As soon as you start the section in php where the loading
screen is ment for, you send the html code to the client that invokes
the javascript function that displays the loading screen. Finally, at
the end of the php script, you send the invokation to the javascript
function that hides the loading screen again.

I hope this helps.

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