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need to display text but script blocks

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excession

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I have a script which uploads files to a server. I want to be able to display a 'please wait' type message while the script is running.

I have tried using the ftp_nb_put but it didn't work, maybe it was somthing I did wrong.

Next i tried displaying an intermediate page first and using a meta refresh tag to call the upload script after a second, but that just seem to continually refresh.

Any idea how to get round these problems?

Thanks in advance

 
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On the same page run the script and print "please be patient" or whatever and at the end of the page insert:
Code: 
location(thankyou.php);

What this does is while the code is running a message will be printed. After the code is completed it will run into the location instruction and will relocate to a different page i.e. Thank-you page

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Thats is what I'm trying to do but the text only displays when the scrips has finished execution...

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
  <meta name="generator" content="PSPad editor, [URL unfurl="true"]www.pspad.com">[/URL]
  <title>Uploading ...</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <h1>Please wait...</h1>
  <h4>Uploading flatfile and images now...</h4>
  <?php include('doftp.php'); ?>
  </body>
</html>

However the 'please wait message only appears after the doftp.php script returns.

I need the 'please wait message to display while the doftp.php script executes

Any ideas?
 
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I have no idea lol,

How would I tell, turn it on/off and what should it be set too?
 
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I believe most pages that display that type of message use Javascript. When you use PHP to upload a file, you script doesn't start until the file is uploaded.

Ken
 
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I don't mind using an intermediate page, but need to find some way of calling the script from within it after the message has been displayed

 
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