That's exactly what I needed! Thanks!
Richard Lynch wrote:
>You may just need a flush() call after the Starting UNZIP.
>
>http://php.net/flush
>
>PHP (Apache, actually) sends data to the browser when there's enough to
>send, not right away.
>
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>From: Ray Clouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Newsgroups: php.general
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>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:10 AM
>Subject: Re: [PHP] Need "Working..." pop up dialog (repost)
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>
>>It's due to space restrictions on the server. We have 300GB available
>>on the server, but the compressed data takes up 200GB, and we're adding
>>new data (several GB) every month or so.
>>
>>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);
>>
>> print("<SCRIPT>jsPopupWindow('Finished UNZIP');</SCRIPT>\n");
>>
>>the 'Starting UNZIP' popup appears at the same time as the 'Finished
>>UNZIP' one. The page hasn't resolved until after the gunzip is done, so
>>it doesn't execute the Javascript the way I want it to. I've tried
>>popping up a window, getting the handle, passing the handle to the
>>gunzip code, then closing the handle when the gunzip is done, but that
>>hasn't worked either.
>>
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