PHP Loading

[Norin]

Hello, I'd like to add a Loading screen to my web site but the problem is that this loading screen must appear BEFORE the page actually load.

 

When I open my site, it says "Waiting for localhost..." then everything appears really fast, so all the loading scripts I found are not working since they get activated while the page is loaded, which is really fast.

 

I'd like the loading to show when it says "Waiting for localhost..." I tried to make a php file to redirect to my page but showing "Loading..." but I did not got it working.

 

Thanks

[per1os]

You could use a meta redirect and set the redirect time to be like 10 seconds, that way the page is always displayed for 10 seconds before being redirected?

 

Maybe I am unclear on what you are really asking for/wanting??? You might also try the sleep() function www.php.net/sleep

[Norin]

well, if I could simply "prepare" the page while displaying a message THEN display the page when it is ready, it would be perfect

[trq]

your really looking for an Ajax solution here. PHP allone has no way of knowing when your page has loaded, this all happens client side.

 

Honestly, if your page is taking that long to load that it needs a 'loading...' page, something is seriously wrong.

[per1os]

You could use buffering

 

www.php.net/ob_start

www.php.net/ob_end_clean

www.php.net/ob_get_contents

 

example:

 

<?php
echo 'Page is loading please wait...<br />';
ob_start();
echo 'This is echoed in the buffer portion. <br />';
for ($i=0;$i<50000; $i++) {
    echo $i . ' time<br />';
}
echo 'This is the end of the buffer section';
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

echo 'The output is read <br />';
echo $output;
?>

 

Now this in coordination with div tags and javascript you can have it dynamically remove the page loading etc.

 

Hope this helps.

[Trium918]

frost110 how did you learn PHP and how long have

you been using it and your age?

[per1os]

www.php.net

 

My best learning source. Never read any books, I found them very disappointingly stupid.

 

I started with Javascript than moved to php. Perhaps the biggest push was a friend asked me to create a movie webfetch. From there he asked me to modify some blog code and yea. Programming came pretty easy.

 

I am 22, been programming since I was 13.

[Trium918]

I just started last year and I am only 23. Man, you have

some experience under your belt.

[Norin]

You could use buffering

 

www.php.net/ob_start

www.php.net/ob_end_clean

www.php.net/ob_get_contents

 

example:

 

<?php
echo 'Page is loading please wait...<br />';
ob_start();
echo 'This is echoed in the buffer portion. <br />';
for ($i=0;$i<50000; $i++) {
     echo $i . ' time<br />';
}
echo 'This is the end of the buffer section';
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

echo 'The output is read <br />';
echo $output;
?>

 

Now this in coordination with div tags and javascript you can have it dynamically remove the page loading etc.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Your code does what I would like to do but instead of having a numbers of times a number is shown, I'd like it to include a page. I tried to replace the "for" with my "include" but it does not work... It just waits untill it has loaded everything THEN it shows everything in one block.

[per1os]

<?php
echo 'Page is loading please wait...<br />';
ob_start();
echo 'This is echoed in the buffer portion. <br />';
include('yourfile.php');
echo 'This is the end of the buffer section';
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

echo 'The output is read <br />';
echo $output;
?>

 

Try that maybe?

[Norin]

Nope, thats the code I was using  :-\

 

I dont know if it has something to do with my use of tinybutstrong in the file... [templates using many blocks then ONE show]