Question

I have a form that performs 3 separate tasks when submitted. When the form is submitted, a lightbox/thickbox window appears to show the status.

The page posts to itself, and as it completes a task, it writes to the database containing a ‘status’ field.

All this is working fine.

I need the current status to appear/refresh in the lightbox, but it’s just showing up blank.

I’ve read that you can’t have more than 2 requests going simultaneously, but I can’t even seem to get 2 working.

I use MooTools, but if you know a good way to do this using an iframe (or something) or another library like jQuery, I’m more than willing to switch.

I’ve been battling with this for awhile now and I can’t seem to get it working for the life of me. Is there a tutorial on doing something like this?

Answer 1

Instead of keeping an everloading iframe for each task, why don’t you poll (with XMLHttpRequest) the status of each task in order periodically?