loading screen, possible?

[Jocka]

Is there a way to do this in PHP, if there is then I'm not that educated in PHP yet lol. I'm sure it requires JAVASCRIPT too if it is infact possible.

I could have swore there was a small tutorial on here somewhere but I couldn't find one.

Is there a way to do this. I want to do it for those LONG database searches, so it shows the users "It's almost done" lol. Just something "neat" to look at really. I don't need it but I'd like to have it.

[zq29]

You'll need something like JavaScript for this, maybe even using an Ajax technique.

[Jocka]

I'm thinking I can just make it do it set by an "average" load time based on connection speed..

It won't be completely accurate but it'll be close

[GingerRobot]

Well, i *think* you do it using flush()...

<?php

for ($i = 0; $i<10; $i++){
echo " Line $i<br />";
flush();
sleep(1);
}

echo "Done.";

?>

Run that and you will notice that it doesn't wait for the script to finish to output the data. So, i believe you can echo things to the browser at strategic points and then use flush().

I am using sleep() to simulate a long script here.

[ylkien]

if flush() doesn't work, try

ob_flush();
flush();