If you redirect into the query page using a META refresh, you can display
the message:

  echo("<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\"
CONTENT=\"0;url=your_url_here.php\"></HEAD><BODY>processing... please
wait</BODY></HTML>");

The message will display until the query page finishes.

Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalKoala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] flushing contents to the browser
> 
> 
> hi folks,
> 
> i'm trying to display something like "processing... please 
> wait" on a web
> page whilst a rather hefty database query is being run.
> 
> i don't want to refresh the page so i've been attempting to 
> use flush and
> ob_start, together with some css stuff to try and do this.. 
> but no luck so
> far - as once the buffer has been flushed, i can't retrieve 
> the content..
> 
> does anyone have any nifty ideas?
> 
> many thanks
> dk
> 
> 
> 
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