Re: flush() problems with IE5

Kari Asikainen wrote: > > The problem is one of my biggest > scripts which makes thumbnails of images at the server, and I'd like to > display a "Please wait - don't hit reload or close browser" -window while > the work is in progress. Use "ignore_user_abort()" to force processing to continue. The parameters to that function don't seem to be documented, but I guess that you could pass anything that is non-null. That will only make the script run to completion. If you want the user to wait for an image then use the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes with your IMG tags to make the browser view the document before the images have been loaded. If you want the user to wait for text, then I suggest that you divide the script into two: * Main script, which first outputs a simple "Wait" page in its entirety and calls ignore_user_abort() before starting the lengthy operation. The wait page contains HTML that urges the browers to refresh to the second script with GET parameters with unique info about the operation. * Progress script. Tests if the operation is complete. If so, then output a positive message, otherwise output HTML that makes the browser refresh to the $REQUEST_URI. Hope this helps. / Johan -- johan@tiq.com -- http://www.obsession.se/johan/ --