NYCPHP Meetup

[csnyder at chxo.com]

Quoting Mark Armendariz <nyphp at enobrev.com>:

> On sites like expedia.com and
> orbitz.com, when you do a search and it goes out to the airline api (sabre i
> believe it is), it shows an animated loading message, basically tellign the
> user that it's grabbing the info they're looking for.
>  

Off the top of my head...

You could cheat with some Javascript:

<body onload="hideDiv('foo');" >
 <div id="foo">Please stand by.</div>
.... rest of the result here

Trick is forcing PHP to flush the output buffer after you print the div.

OR you could hand off the query to a backend cli script that will write the
result to a file, and use a refresh loop to keep checking for the file and
displaying "please wait" if it's not found. 

That's a lot more complex, and possibly prone to security problems, but might be
smoother from the client perspective.

  csnyder