PHP: Display a “loading” page while a php script is executing?

You'll want to take a look at AJAX. The solution is to send the browser a "loading" page, which contains javascript that shows the loading message, and then connects to the actual data generating server-side script asynchronously. When you have received and processed the data, you can insert it into the DOM and remove the loading message.

Googling for XMLHttpRequest will get you the details.

R\n"; flush(); //output to the browser before the rest of the execution connect_surveygizmo(); //this is going to take while. Echo "Finished! ";?

Create a loading page that displays your desired loading message. Then using ajax (I HIGHLY recommend jQuery) load a separate php file that loads the outside data. Once the data returns to your loading page, it's a simple task of hiding the loading message and replacing it with the output of the ajax.

I'd suggest not using CAPITALS for emphasis. You can place a * before and after the words you want to emphasise for italic, or ** for bold and (in answers, but not comments) *** for italic and bold text. Also, I agree with your recommendation, jQuery's pure-awesome.

– David Thomas Oct 1 '10 at 5:16 Yeah, I'm familiar with ajax, I just don't know if that would be the ideal solution for my particular problem. – lewisqic Oct 1 '10 at 5:21.

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