how to return continuus output?

Oliver Spiesshofer

Hi,

I have a script which takes some time to execute.
I would like to return intermediary results during the execution.

what would be the best thing to do?

So far there are no results until all the functions have finished the
processes.

thanks

Oliver

Jul 17 '05 #1

> I have a script which takes some time to execute.

I would like to return intermediary results during the execution.

You can play around with flushing output, however, there is no guarantee
there. The most elegant solution is to do the following:

1 - Before you start the processing, output a javascript based popup window
(or you can use a div layer instead). This will serve as your "please
wait..." dialog.

2 - Once the script is done processing (most likely at the end of your html
output), output the cooresponding javascript to close the popup window or
hide the div layer.

____________________________________
Wil Moore III, MCP | Integrations Specialist

Jul 17 '05 #2

Blackie

this is only human-seen solution...
....but if processing takes more time, browser interrupts connection, after
timeout
to prevent this timeout, you need to send some data (and flushing it) in
time between this two steps

if you cannot execute PHP code in this time-consuming operation (ie. you
wait for processing big SQL query) "register_tick_function" may be useful
also you can use style="display: none", to hide this text from human reader

Blackie
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I have a script which takes some time to execute.
I would like to return intermediary results during the execution.
You can play around with flushing output, however, there is no guarantee
there. The most elegant solution is to do the following:

1 - Before you start the processing, output a javascript based popup

window (or you can use a div layer instead). This will serve as your "please
wait..." dialog.

2 - Once the script is done processing (most likely at the end of your html output), output the cooresponding javascript to close the popup window or
hide the div layer.

____________________________________
Wil Moore III, MCP | Integrations Specialist

Jul 17 '05 #3