Posted by Jeff North on 03/10/07 07:31

On 9 Mar 2007 20:40:41 -0800, in comp.lang.php "rahulthathoo"
<rahul.thathoo@gmail.com>
<1173501640.785186.173480@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> wrote:

>| Hi
>|
>| I have a perl program called by my php script, which in turn is called
>| by the browser. Now, the perl program is called using exec, but takes
>| a long time to finish. So, till the time the perl script does not
>| finish its job, the browser does not show anything. I have messages
>| like "Dont close this window", but that does not show up till the
>| whole perl program finishes. Is there a way, I can somehow remedy
>| this, try to show a message on the browser - "Please while your data
>| processes" and then do the processing in the background?
>|
>| Rahul
<?php
echo "Please while your data processes";
exec(.....
?>
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