Delaying Parts Of A Page

[cliftonbazaar]

I have a page that echo's 10 questions so the user can choose one, what I want is a one second delay between each question being displayed, I have tried sleep() in the loop but this doesn't work

 

My current code is

for($i=0; $i < 10; $i++) {
sleep(1);
echo "<tr><td style='text-align:center;'>$i</td>
 <td colspan=9>";
 ?><input type="button" value="<?php echo $rows[$_SESSION['questions'][$i]]["question"]; ?>"
 onclick="location.href='game/update.php?gameID=<?php echo $player['current_game_id']."&gamequestion=".$rows[$_SESSION['questions'][$i]]["question_no"]."&runs=$runs"; ?>'"><?php
 echo "</td></tr>";
}

 

NOTE that if I take sleep(1) out everything works fine but when I put it in it only gives a ten second delay after I have clicked a button that appears from in the loop.

[Psycho]

PHP is executed on the server. Once the script COMPLETES then the entire thing is sent to the browser. The way to achieve what you are wanting is with Javascript - not PHP.

[Mahngiel]

I suggest you set all the elements (tr's in this case) to hidden, and use javascript and setInterval to show them.

[cliftonbazaar]

Thanks for that - I'll go and search google for javascript to do this

Edited October 1, 2012 by cliftonbazaar