sleep() controll

[redarrow]

i thort this but dosen work first show an animated pic then echo message.


<?php

sleep(2);


$img="<img src='images/x.gif'</img>";
echo $img;


sleep(5);


if($_GET['cmd']==delete){

echo "delete database entry";

}else{

echo "no not there ok!";

}


?>

[wildteen88]

No this is not how sleep works. Sleep only stops the PHP Intepreter for the number of secounds defined. It does not pause, print something, then pause again and print something else.

[redarrow]

so is that inposale then print echo print echo

[trq]

You can try toying around with the output buffer but its highly browser specific and not really worth your while attempting.

This sort of thing would be best handled by javascript / ajax.

[redarrow]

can you give a quick example ajax way please chers.

[trq]

Would'nt really need to be ajax unless your retreiving data from a database, pure javascript would do, and there is a whole other forum for such questions.

[Drumminxx]

try looking up javascript DHTML

here is a good start

http://www.golivecentral.com/pages/txttut/jstut/innerhtml.shtml