PHP to CF Conversion

[wkolcz]

I asked in a JS forum how to delay a browser closing for a couple seconds and someone came back with the solution, however they supplied one of the pieces in PHP to which I know nothing about.

I know CF has no sleep function, but would like to see how much of this can be converted into a cfm page. I can try to think of a way to delay the end.

Here is their snippet:

<?php
$secs = (isset($_GET["t"]) && is_numeric($_GET["t"])) ? $_GET["t"] : 5;
sleep($secs);
echo("ready");
?>

Would something like:
<cfscript>
seconds = url.seconds;
**Something like a loop that runs for 5 seconds**
return done;
</script>

[Daverms]

Hi,

Here is the JS code,

<script language="javascript">
setTimeout('self.close();',5000);
</script>

[wkolcz]

Thanks but it has to be a programming language. JS is calling out to it to create a delay in the page closing so Flex has time to send out a webservice request.

[Newsgroup_User]

projectproofing wrote:
> I asked in a JS forum how to delay a browser closing for a couple seconds and
> someone came back with the solution, however they supplied one of the pieces in
> PHP to which I know nothing about.
>
> I know CF has no sleep function, but would like to see how much of this can be
> converted into a cfm page. I can try to think of a way to delay the end.

http://www.petefreitag.com/item/85.cfm

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Mack

[Guest]

at least a couple of ways to do this:

1. sleep the java thread:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/coldfusion-howto/message/38270

2. use the CF_SLEEP custom tag (google it)