RE: [PHP] intermediate search screen

thats the thing, ok theroetically , i'd like to post to say search.php a screen shows up saying please wait , or to be fancy a progress bar :D, and as it is doing this it is quering the database for the results, instead of looking like its hanging on a white screen somehow doing the query in the background , and when the resultset is done redirect to the results page , would i have to store the results into and array, redirect and then loop throug the array to show the results ? say i had 100,000 records which is what i am gonna have to search upon full text !, its gonna take a while to get all the results within a while loop, i cannot seem to get a screen up there while its looping and then redirect when its finished, somehow flush it while its looping then redirect when its finished the resultset any ideas ? i cannot seem to echo anything until the loop is finished well in PHP3 anyway , 4 i can ob_flush it >===== Original Message From <holmes072000@charter.net> ===== >> hi guys i cannot see any way to actual get this to happen , although, >> vbulletin is the only place i've seen it in action, any ideas how they >do >> it ? > >You POST your search to a intermediate page that says "please wait" >which then META redirects to the page that runs the query and displays >the result. This means you have to save the criteria for the search >someplace so that the final page can get it. Either put it in a session >or pass it along in the URL or something... > >---John W. Holmes... > >PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy >today. http://www.phparch.com/ > > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php