Re: need "pop-up" in progress alert

As a suggestion you could store a progress of the function in the session and make regular calls via ajax back to the server for the progress. -- /James On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Steve Holmes <sholmes42@mac.com> wrote: > Greetings, I'm relatively new to PHP and I've been lurking for a while on > the list, but now I need a pointer or two. > I have an application which has one function that does a lengthy process > (installing a piece of software) and I don't want the user to panic > thinking > nothing is going on. So I want to put up a 'working' box or a progress > bar. > I have no idea how to do that. I haven't dipped my toes into pear yet. I > don't even know how to install or use a pear module. If there is something > available that doesn't require pear knowledge so much the better, I guess, > but if this is the straw that gets me into pear, so be it. > So if someone could point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate > it. > > Thanks, > Steve Holmes > Purdue University >