Re: Progress bar ?

From: Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:17:18 +0000
Subject: Re: Progress bar ?
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On Wed, 24 May 2000, Turcu Mihai wrote: > Hi :)) > > I am trying to do a progress bar to show the evolution of an update of a > mysql database. > The problem is that I couldn't find any solution to do that bcs. apache+php > does not send the page until is completely generated (as far as I've > noticed) and so the progress bar is shown for a very short time when the > update is already done and the page is finished. > > Anyone has a solution to that ? Am I thinking wrong ? Can it be done ? Well, you could show a progress bar by generating a flash file, or using Javascript, but considering most SQL updates are done in a split second, I doubt any sort of progress bar could even be rendered before the SQL was completed. Matt

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