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Thanks guys for all the advice ! If you have 5 minutes to spare please take a look at teletextholidays.co.uk Then perform a holiday search . You will see the process im trying build once you submit the search ! How are they doing it ?

Hi Guys, With regards to redesigning my database - this would be a massive operation ... i have admin areas that use it and stats programmes that use it .... it not really a option ! With the solution that 'redarrow' suggested ... this is fine ... but i want to be loading the results page as the animated gif is being displayed to the user ... For example : If i just redirect to the results page after 3 seconds - the result page still needs to be created with the data. What im trying to acheive is that why im displaying a page with a animated gif the result page is being built and then when its built it some how tells the holding page (animated gif) that its ready and then the holding page displays the results. I guess what im tring to explain is that ... the results page will display a animated gif + a message until the results are ready ... once the results are ready to be displayed we remove the animated gif + message and replace them with the processed results.

Hi Gents, Let me start off by saying im new to php. On my website (php based) i have a search facility. This search searches my database and returns back products that match the search criteria. So the process is ... 1) submit the search 2) see the search results in the results page. Now my database is getting bigger and the searches are becoming more complex making the results take longer to return. This causes me a problem because sometimes users of my site think its crashed and either try and refresh or just leave the site. What i want to do is place a holding page between the search page and the results page. This holding page would maybe have like a egg timer on it so the users know something is happening and wont leave the site. So my question is ... How can i add a holding page that displays the results once they have been fully processed by the server ? For example the process would now be ... 1) submit the search 2) display a holding page telling the user we are getting the data 3) remove the holding page and display the results This is being done on a holiday site called teletextholidays.co.uk .... if you perform a holiday search you see this holding page for maybe 2/3 seconds. ??? How do i do this ? im totally lost. Cheers