How does one show a wait animation in Php while the MySQL select results are being compiled?
To be exact say you go to a Php page which page is complete when 100 select results come back
from the MySQL DB. And it takes, depending on the traffic on the MySQL DB, from 5 to 30 seconds
before all the results come back. During this 5 to 30 seconds wait time rather than having the user
look at a browser page slowly (incompletely) loading we would like to show them a nice (wait centric)
animation. How is this done in Php?
You wouldn’t do this in PHP - PHP is just used for server side code. You likely want to achieve this by firing off an AJAX request, which will update the current page when it finishes.
Do you have a Javascrip, aka AJAX, related code for getting this done that you can recommend.
For various reasons I rather work with pure Javascript than JQuery.