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Create "please wait" page while process running

Asked by td234 in PHP Scripting Language

Tags: php, wait, please, page

I know there have been similar questions asked but I have yet to find a solution to fit my needs. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I have a PHP page that sends emails to a newsletter list. It takes a while and my browser (Safari) timesout after 60 seconds. The script has "set_time_limit". The script is not timing out, the browser is timing out.

My current attempt at solving this is to open a pop-up window (onSubmit) that has an animation that says "please wait while we send the messages". The opener window is sending the emails and if it completes the task will close the pop-up window (onLoad). This works unless the opener window takes more than 60 seconds and it give an error that it has tried to open the page for 60 seconds and has quit trying.

I also tried putting a PRINT line in the script above thinking if it kept sending text to the original window the browser would be satisfied that the page was still coming, but that does not seem to work.

I believe it is still possible to send a header that will allow ou to stream text to a browser so I could create the page that says "please wait" and print a (".") period every 10 emails. I have nto been able to find out how to do this. Anyone know? I think this would solve my problem and even negate my need for the pop-up window.

Anyone have any other solutions to a situation like this? Most the travel sites do this while looking up your reservation. Any idea how they do it?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Thom
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