Re: selfreferencing script with output

Thanks you very much Silvio, for your answer. Yes, it seems to be complicated. Especially regarding the time I have to do the programming for this part of my work. Now I reduced the time the preparing of the mailtext needs and hope for the moment that the servers time my script gets will be sufficient for the task. I have to check out the circumstances of the productive machine. But I will surely have a closer look on the AJAX approach later. Thanks again and have a nice sunday Sabine Silvio Porcellana schrieb:

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