Delay desplaying a web page to wait for database

[benny666]

I want to publish a form that when the user will click submit
the page will show wait... and then move to the next form

the trick is that I need this wait to be an arbitrary time depending on the wait for the database response

can any one help???

[Khalid Ali]

sounds like u are using some sort of db and web server,in that case just write server side code that will execute once the db is done working and send a response to the page to go forward

[benny666]

actually I am useing cgi scripts but the problem is that after the query from the db comes back since there are a lot of names the page take about a minuit to load a drop down box.

What I need is a middle page like expedia that will say please wait and then will load the page as is no wait time

[Khalid Ali]

try to understand what I suggested.
your best bet is to do it on the server side exactly the way I mentioned above.
For a waite page you can return a page and then once waite is over you can send the final page something like this
in php

if(!dbdone){
$tempLoc = "waite_page.html";
header("Location:$tempLoc");
}
if(dbdone){
$thankyou = "thankyou_page.html";
header("Location:$thankyou ");
}

something along these lines will work

[benny666]

In order to make it clear lets asume that the db work is done but the thankyou.html page is very very big and desplaying this page will take about a minuit.

does it make sense???