"Please wait whist retrieving your information"

[ShaneBrennan]

I have a little problem that I can't solve - and I would appreciate any help on this matter.

I'm writing a time table program of a local college, well actually I'm just creating a HTML to view the information - not change anything.

One of the screens is very complicated and takes ages to create and display on the fly because it has a lot of complicated tables that have different coloured backgrounds and images to highlight the times classes will be taking place.

Because they are so complicated I've used the fopen/fwrite to create a new HTML file and then use a simple javascript command to redirect the browser to this new page.

The problem is the user is presented with a blank screen for a while what I want to do is display a simple "Please wait whilst the computer retrieves your information" message to the user. I can't seem to be able to do this simple yet difficult task.

I initially created a new HTML page to sit between my HTML page for the menu and the page to generate the timetable document - however once this new page re-directs to my php page to generate the time tables the screen goes blank.

HELP ME PLEASE!!!

Thanks for any help

Shane


Shane Brennan

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[sleipnir214]

I would point the browser to an HTML page which contains the "Please wait...." prompt and includes a META HTML tag which will direct the browser to a new page after so many seconds.

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