Re: way to insert timer / pause?

Andrew, my application is of customer service tries to recharge the balance on a pin, and it is over their charge limit (the customer service personnel) then I was thinking I would display a header for a few seconds telling them the recharge failed, and why. however, I think I will just out it in highlighted text instead (and flashing if I can figure that out). Jeff "Andrew Brampton" <andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:002b01c2b2d6$37fba7a0$4fc40650@andrew... > I beleive you can use output buffering to stop anything from being displayed > until the very last moment. Or you can code your page with tables. I know IE > wont' render a table until the last </table> (I beleive), so this could stop > your html from showing. > > Or if there is going to be a long pause, you could make a intermediate page > that displays this will take minute. This page would have a meta refresh > that keeps refreshing itself checking the status of your job. Once the job > is complete on the next refresh it will notice the job is done and voila > display the results. > > Andrew > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff Bluemel" <jeff@domintcom.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:56 AM > Subject: [PHP] way to insert timer / pause? > > > > if there a command, or a way I can put say a 5 second, or a 10 second > pause > > which will make it so it will output x amount of html, and then continue? > > or if I can pause it will it not display any of the html until the entire > > script has ran? > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > >