Keeping Users Informed In Lengthy PHP Processes
Often PHP processes take a long time, such as wildcard searching a PostgreSQL database, or generating thumbnails.
The PHP host page does not display until the script is complete, so you can not effectively use code such as
echo "Converting file ".$Infile;
exec(convert $Infile $O8utfile);
for realtime feedback to the user.
How have others implemented a "progress meter" in PHP processes , one thought I had was to use Javascript redirection to call a PHP page with differing parameters each time .
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