Using jQuery/Ajax with PHP to display current progress

Question

Short and sweet: Looking for a way to call PHP file and display the progress using jQuery and/or Ajax. PHP file upgrade.php?step=1 is called and then the o

Answer 1

There's another approach to this problem.

I wrote a comprehensive example as an answer to this question:

Processing large amounts of data in PHP without a browser timeout

PS: My example can be extended to also pass a message on each progress - in fact, it's quite flexible; you can make it up date only parts of the UI you want according to whatever is happening on the server, sparing the client from unnecessary processing.