I like to create a progress bar for my ajax calls. For this I can make my server side script to return the state of it's progress. So I need for javascript to read this progress level and show it.
Is it possible or am I on the wrong road?
I like to create a progress bar for my ajax calls. For this I can make my server side script to return the state of it's progress. So I need for javascript to read this progress level and show it.
Is it possible or am I on the wrong road?
You could try something like this (some pseudocode, assuming jQuery, since you've tagged the question as such):
var poll;
$.ajax({
url: 'your_ajax_script',
beforeSend: function(){ // set up out-of-band status polling
poll = setInterval( function(){
$.get('your_script_that_returns_status',
function(data){
update_progressbar(data);
});
}, 1000 ); // update every second?
},
success: function(data) {
clearInterval( poll ); // stop polling
finalize_or_hide_progressbar(); // clean up
do_something_with( data ); // your "done" logic
}
});
Either poll at intervals, returning the payload on the final successful call, or run two AJAX calls - the first retrieving the actual data, and the second polling for update percentage.