Re: Need "Working..." pop up dialog (repost)

On Tuesday 21 August 2001 17:10, Ray Clouse wrote: > So we need to keep as much compressed as possible, but we have to > uncompress the data for the webpages to use it. The PHP webpages on > the server use the uncompressed data to generate plots. The data is > never sent to the user, just the plots. > > The main problem I'm having is with page resolution. If I say: > > print("<SCRIPT>jsPopupWindow('Starting UNZIP');</SCRIPT>\n"); > > $gunzipcmdline = "gunzip /PATHTO/MYDATA"; > $result = exec("$gunzipcmdline", $execout, $execretval); Uncompressing should not take that much time. And you can speed it up by using the zlib functions instead of a exec (gunzip ...) http://php.net/gzopen Also, if the file to be uncompressed is very large, you should cache the results (the generated plots). -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://lgdc.sunsite.dk/) Install once, run forever. Linux.