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Display time for results

Dear EE Community

When you do a search on the EE site it display the time for how long it took to find the records. Does anyone know how to do this.

I use a form that uses the get method and post to another page.

Thank You
Caz

bigjim2000

Are you implementing a search function on your own site?

If so, just record the time when it starts, record it when you are done, then put the difference in a hiddien field on the posting page. Then when you post to the new page, the time will be there for you to do with what you please :-)

-Eric

BeginningWebDesign

ASKER

Hi Eric

Could you put the start time in the page_init() and the end time in the page_unload() and take the end time away from the start time.

If so do you know the syntax for displaying the time accurate to for example: 00.01 second

Caz

Fahad Mukhtar

DateTime t3,t4;
t3 = DateTime.Now;

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(400); //repalce your Search code here

t4 = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan t = t4-t3;
MessageBox.Show(t.Milliseconds.ToString());//on my machine it returned 402

Fahad Mukhtar

You can get Seconds by dividing s.Milliseconds by 1000 or by directly using t.Seconds

BeginningWebDesign

ASKER

Hi Desp

Not sure what you mean by the following: //repalce your Search code here
Do I enter the querystring

Caz

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BeginningWebDesign

ASKER

Thanks Desp

I understand most the code, could you tell me what this section means and does for future referance

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(400);

Caz

Fahad Mukhtar

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(400)
Sleep the current thread for 400 ms.. in other words wait for 400 milliseconds...
thats why my machine returned me 402 milliseconds ~.4 seconds