Re: selfreferencing script with output

Sabine wrote: > Thanks for your answer, Gustav, > > now I see I didn't explain good enough what my problem is. > My problem is not how to construct a status bar, but not it is > possible to provide any output before the headering (*Warning*: Cannot > modify header information - headers already sent by). Neither after it. > > Best regards > Sabine > > P.S.: I played around with PEARs HTML_Progress. It's really worth > trying. The user doc on Laurent Lavilles page provides a lot of > explanation and examples. > (http://pear.laurent-laville.org/HTML_Progress/). > Hi Sabine why don't you try an AJAX approach? (Kinda like GMail and stuff like that?) You can create a DIV in your page that contains the *output* (maybe an image with the width set to the percentage of mails sent): the content of this DIV is updated by another script (the one that sends the email) that gets called (via JavaScript) at specific intervals with a specific query (in your case, the messages to send). This way your main page never gets reloaded and you see a nice progress bar in your DIV. I know it sounds a bit difficult, but it's a cool "technology" and after the initial difficulties it can be really useful. As a start, have a read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX HTH, cheers! Silvio