Wait for PHP scripts to process before moving on 1

[shavenlunatic]

OK, I'll try explain what I need/would like help with without confusing myself and any innocent bystanders

index.php contains various divs with includes to other php files which gather various bits of information.

one of these divs (called "link")includes a makelink.php which (for the sake of keeping this simple) creates a link of the <a href="Javascript: Dostuff(Variable)"></a> variety

Now, that javascript is along the lines of:

function DoStuff(Variable)
{
xmlHttp=GetXmlHttpObject();
if (xmlHttp==null)
{
        alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request");
        return;
}
var url="/DoSomething.php?Variable="+Variable+";
xmlHttp.readystate
xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true)
xmlHttp.send(null)
setTimeout("window.location = '/index.php'",200);
}

the "DoSomething.php" does a few checks, updates a mysql db and generally has a good old time. The concern I have is the timeout.. it's hardly a safe way of ensuring nobody gets the page refresh before the server has finished processing.

Now, ideally I'd want the process to be like this:

1. xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true)
2. waits until the above has finished processing
3. ajaxpage('/makelink.php', 'link')
4. ajaxpage('/someother.php', 'anotherdiv')

to have the whole process a nice, seamless process with no full page refreshes and for everything to be guaranteed up-to-date on their screen by the time everything reloads

Is this possible? or am I just setting myself up for disappointment?

Any help will be appreciated.

Cheers

________
clueless

 

[jpadie]

this seems to be an ajax question and best asked in the general ajax forum.

but the answer is, anyway, to make each ajax request synchronous rather than asynchronous. so change that TRUE to FALSE....