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ktsirig

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Hi,

 

I have an input form for a user to submit some input and then this input is processed by a Perl script, which is called through the PHP index page...

 

My problem is that this external script takes usually more than 2-3 minutes so there is a risk of the page to hang. How can I modify my PHP page to stay in index.php, but periodically refresh it so, when the perl command is done, it then outputs the results.

 

Here is the index page (the refresh I wrote on top did not work.

<?php
$max_seqs = 1000;

$page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$sec = "10";
header("Refresh: $sec; url=$page");

?>
<html>
<head>

<style>
	body 
	{
		font-family: arial;
		color: #003965;
		font-size: 14px;
	}

	textarea 
	{ 	
		width: 620px;
		height: 120px;
		font-family: courier;
	}

	.whole
	{
		width: 1000px;
		border-collapse: collapse;
		margin-top:20px;
		margin-bottom:20px;
		text-align: center;
		background-color: #e8e8e8;
		font-size: 12px;
	}

	.browse_cell 
	{
	    background:#d8dada;
	 	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size: 13px;
		padding: 3;
		border-spacing: 2; 
		text-align: center;
	    font-weight: bold;
		color:#424d5d;
	}

	.browse_cell_change1 
	{
	    background:#BFBFF6;
		font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size: 11px;
		padding: 2;
	}

	.browse_cell_change2
	{
    	background:#D9D9D9;
		font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size: 11px;
		padding: 2;
		border-spacing:4px;
	}

	.headcell 
	{
		font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size: 16px;
		font-weight:bold;
		line-height: 15px;
		text-align: center;
		color: #000144;
	}


</style>
</head>

<body>
<?php

	if( isset ( $_POST['sequence'] ))				#run part
	{
		function readSeqs($text) 
		{
			if( !preg_match( '/^>/m', $text ) )
	    	return readSeqs( ">\n$text" );

	  		$seqs = array();
	  		$text = preg_replace( '/[\n\r]+/', "\n", $text );
			preg_match_all( '/^>([^\n]*)\n([^>]*)/ms', $text, $matches );

			foreach( $matches[1] as $k=>$name1 ) 
			{
				$seqs_number++;
				$seq = $matches[2][$k];
				$name1 = trim($name1);
				$name=substr($name1, 0, 50);	#keep only the first 40 characters (if the name is longer)
				$name=preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $name);
				$name=preg_replace('/[\|\s\/\\\%\*&\#\@\(\)\[\]\$\^\!]/', '_', $name);
				$seq = preg_replace( '/\s+/', '', $seq );

				$seqs[] = array( 'name'=>$name, 'seq'=>$seq );
	  		}
			return $seqs;
		}

		$uniq_number = uniqid();
		$input_folder = './tmp_files/myfolder_'.$uniq_number; 
		mkdir($input_folder);
	  	$input_file = $input_folder.'/'.'input_seqs';	
	  	$seqs = readSeqs($_POST['sequence']); 		 	
	  	$run_mode = $_POST['mode'];					 	
	  	$signal='';									 	
	  	$phmms='';									 	

		if($_POST[sp_pred] == 'on')
		{
	  		$signal = $_POST['sp_pred'];				
		}
		else
		{
			$signal = 'off';
		}

	  	if($_POST['pfams'] == 'on')
	  	{
	  		$phmms = $_POST['pfams'];				
	  	}
	  	else
	  	{
	  		$phmms = 'off';
	  	}

	  	$seqs_number = count($seqs);		

	  	$prior_info1 = $_POST['prior'];				
		if (preg_match('/Example/', $prior_info1))	
	  		{ 
	  			$prior_info='--';
	  			$prior_info_final='NO_INFO';
	  		}
	  	else
	  		{ 
	  			$prior_info=$prior_info1;
	  			$prior_info_final=str_replace(';', 'A', $prior_info);
	  		}

	  	if( $seqs_number == 0 )
	  	{
	  		echo "<em>You did not submit any sequences.</em>";
	  	}

	  	elseif( $seqs_number > $max_seqs )
	  	{
	  		echo "<em>You can input no more than $max_seqs sequences at a time.</em>";
	  	}

	  	elseif ( $seqs_number > 1 and $seqs_number <= $max_seqs )
	  	{
		  	$input = '';
		  	foreach($seqs as $v) 								#create input file for run
		  	{ $input.= ">".$v['name']."\n".$v['seq']."\n";  }	#write each FASTA seq in input file
		  	file_put_contents( $input_file, $input );			#(if we will allow >1 proteins)

			#echo "perl Whole_Program.pl $input_folder $seqs_number $prior_info_final $run_mode $signal $phmms<br>";
		  	exec ("perl Whole_Program.pl $input_folder $seqs_number $prior_info_final $run_mode $signal $phmms", $res_total, $ret);
		  	
		  	if($ret==0)
		  	{
		  		$text_file = $input_file.'.txt_res';
		  		$zip_file = 'tmp_files/'.$uniq_number.'.tgz';

		  		echo "<table class=\"whole\">\n";
		  		echo "<tbody>\n";	
		  		echo "<tr><td class=\"headcell\" align=\"right\" colspan=\"7\"><br>Results<br><br></td></tr>\n";
		  		echo "<tr>\n";
		  		echo "<td width=\"14%\" class=\"browse_cell\">Entry</td>\n".
		  			 "<td width=\"12%\" class=\"browse_cell\">Length</td>\n".
		  			 "<td width=\"14%\" class=\"browse_cell\">Signal peptide</td>\n".
		  			 "<td width=\"14%\" class=\"browse_cell\">β-score</td>\n".
		  			 "<td width=\"38%\" class=\"browse_cell\">OMPdb family</td>\n".
		  			 "<td width=\"14%\" class=\"browse_cell\">#TM</td>\n".
		  			 "<td width=\"12%\" class=\"browse_cell\">Topology image</td>\n";
		  		echo "</tr>\n";

		  		foreach ($res_total as $line_entry) 
		  		{
		  			$counter++;
		  			if ($counter % 2)	{$colour_class="browse_cell_change1";}
		  			else				{$colour_class="browse_cell_change2";}

		  			$all_data = preg_split("/\t/", $line_entry);

		  			$id=$all_data[0];
		  			$seq_len=$all_data[1];
		  			$signal=$all_data[2];
		  			$score=$all_data[3];
		  			$family_name=$all_data[4];
		  				$family_number=$families_array[$family_name];
		  			$tm_num=$all_data[5];
		  				if($tm_num==0) {$tm_num='--';}
		  			$topo_img_link=$all_data[6];

		  			echo "<tr>\n";
		  			echo "<td width=\"14%\" align=\"left\" class=\"".$colour_class."\">".$id."</td>\n". 
		  			 	 "<td width=\"12%\" class=\"".$colour_class."\">".$seq_len."</td>\n". 
		  			 	 "<td width=\"14%\" class=\"".$colour_class."\">".$signal."</td>\n". 
		  			 	 "<td width=\"14%\" class=\"".$colour_class."\">".$score."</td>\n". 
		  			 	 "<td width=\"38%\" align=\"left\" class=\"".$colour_class."\">";


		  			if($family_name == "--") 
		  			{
		  				echo "$family_name</td>\n";
		  			}
		  			
		  			else
		  			{
		  				echo "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.ompdb.org/OMPdb/view_family.php?fam_id=".$family_number."\">".
		  			 	 	 $family_name."</a></td>\n";
		  			}
		  			 	  
		  			echo "<td width=\"14%\" class=\"".$colour_class."\">".$tm_num."</td>\n";

		  			if($topo_img_link=='--')
		  			{
		  				echo "<td width=\"12%\" class=\"".$colour_class."\">--</td>\n";
		  			}
		  			else
		  			{
		  				echo "<td width=\"12%\" class=\"".$colour_class."\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"".$topo_img_link."\"> Download</a></td>\n";
		  			}
		  			 	 
		  			echo "</tr>\n";
				}
				echo "</tbody></table>\n";
		  	}

		  	else
		  	{
		  		echo "<br /><br />Program error!";

		  	}
	  	}
		echo "<br /><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"".$text_file."\">Download</a> results in plain text format\n";	
		echo "<br /><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"".$zip_file."\">Download</a> all files related to this submission as a tarball\n";	
		echo "<br /><br /><a href=\"index.php\">Run again</a><br />";	
	}

	else 				#index initial page
	{
		echo "Please paste up one or more ".
			 " - formatted sequences in the textarea below: <br /><br />\n";
		echo "<form method=post name=\"seq_form\">".
		"<textarea name=\"sequence\"></textarea>
		<br /><br />
		Select mode:	
		<input type=\"radio\" name=\"mode\" value=\"1\" checked /> MSA-version (1 sequence)
		 <input type=\"radio\" name=\"mode\" value=\"2\" /> Single-sequence version (up to $max_seqs sequences)
		<br /><br />
		Run signal-peptide prediction using <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.compgen.org/tools/PRED-TAT/\">PRED-TAT</a>:	
		<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"sp_pred\" checked>
		<br /><br />
		Use library in prediction:	
		<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"pfams\" checked>
		<br /><br />
		Prior information (constrained prediction):
		<input type=\"text\" name=\"prior\" size=\"33\" style=\"color:#888;\" 
    	value=\"Example: I:1-15;M:20-25;O:30-30\" onfocus=\"inputFocus(this)\" onblur=\"inputBlur(this)\" />	 
		<br /><br />
		<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Run prediction\" />
		<input type=\"reset\" value=\"Clear fields\" />
		<input type=\"button\" value=\"Generate sample input\" onclick=\"example_fill();\">
		</form>";
		echo "<br /><hr>";
	}
?>
</body>
</html>
nik_jain Member

nik_jain

Posted
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If you are not handy with Javascript it will require some learning...

Basically you set code to send requests with javascript(ajax) every  1 second or so
The requests (simple GET queries ) are sent to the server, site.com/ajaxHandler.php?check=1
Where the script ajaxhandler will check for whatever thing you need to check
and echo out a response, which the javascript code will see and perform an action based on that.

For syntax , just google.. 'ajax beginner' or something like that

7blake Newbie

7blake

Posted
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basic ajax/php relationship below. You could set it up, and then have it on a timed loop function, if you need it to run during a specific set of time. It just needs some tweaking depending on the sort of data you are sending, but the overall base structure is there.




$.ajax({

method: "POST", // Or GET

url: 'path', // URL to your server page  

data: {parameter1: value1}, // parameters -- can be multiple. pareameter1 is what you target with $_POST['parameter1'] in PHP - value1 is your data. 

success: function(data) { // PHP's echoed data

// Do something with the echoed data     

}




//php


if(isset($_POST['param1])){


   $retrievedData = $_POST['parameter1'];

   echo $retrievedData;

}

});

Edited by 7blake
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