https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1034190 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/how-done-php-javascript-or-both#comment-1198964 <p>The best thing to do is<br /> formpage.html (action=processing.php)<br /> on processing.php have an onload="window.location=complete.php"<br /> (just make sure to have the HTML you want displayed put before the php in processing.php then when the php is complete, it should trigger the onload and do the redirect.</p> Thu, 04 May 2006 16:14:38 +0000 CptAwesome comment 1198964 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/how-done-php-javascript-or-both#comment-1198644 <p>Well the same method still applies really, form.php is submitted to processing.php (which has the nice "Processing your request..." message), processing.php GET's or POST's all the variables from form.php, does the system call to your biology package then redirects to results.php when complete.</p> <p>Does that make sense?</p> Mon, 01 May 2006 12:04:01 +0000 JeevesBond comment 1198644 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/how-done-php-javascript-or-both#comment-1198641 <p>no, the external program doesn't have to do with PHP at all. It is a biology package that I call through PHP using the "system" command. And, when the program stops running, I read the results from a temporary file that is being created. I just wanted to use a message for as long as the program is running, I think it's more beautiful than not having anything at all...</p> Mon, 01 May 2006 08:35:01 +0000 ktsirig comment 1198641 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/how-done-php-javascript-or-both#comment-1198639 <p>Ok, well, that do you mean by an external program? Is it another PHP program or what?</p> Mon, 01 May 2006 07:25:25 +0000 Renegade comment 1198639 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/how-done-php-javascript-or-both#comment-1198616 <p>Hi, thank you for your time!<br /> Actually, what I do is not just take user's input and print it, but i use the data which the user sends as input to an external program that I call through PHP. This program is a bit slow, so I thought of using such a page (not a very complicated one) so that the user will see a message like "Jour job is being processed", and then, when the job is done, the page will refresh and show the results or will redirect to the results page.</p> Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:51:59 +0000 ktsirig comment 1198616 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/how-done-php-javascript-or-both#comment-1198545 <p>All you need is to define a page in the action="" part of the tag.</p> <p>So, something like should do the trick. Once the user clicks on the submit button, it will jump to "processing.php" and start processing the form data.</p> <p>In processing.php process the data entered in the field and return a message.</p> Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:44:22 +0000 Renegade comment 1198545 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net