Re: Progress bar ?

Unfortunately, you can't get a real, live, "this process is 50% complete" progress bar out of such an update, for exactly the reason you mentioned: The page is only going to render after after the web server sends it, which won't happen until the mysql_query() function returns (or dies, or whatever). I did, however, see something vaguely similar on Photodisc's site: while browsing for images, they load an image into the background which simply says, "Loading". Then they drop a white layer on top of it and fill it with whatever text is appropriate for the page. It's not a progress bar, and it won't come down the pipe until after the query runs, but it might be useful. http://www.photodisc.com Sam Leibowitz (sleibowitz@btcwcu.org) Webmaster, Sysadmin Business Technology Center 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 ? > > > Mihai > >