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Nov 03.2010

If I wanted a div to show for a particular amount of time (say 5 secs) and then disappear (display:none; will work), how would I go about doing it? Would this be better executed in JS or will php do the job just as well?

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@Jarrod1937Nov 03.2010 — Php is a server side language. Once the output is sent from it, you can't change it, unless you are using a client side language like javascript. So, yes, javascript would be your best/only choice here. You can probaby just do something like:

document.getElementById('divid').style.display='none';

executed on a timer. For the timer you can use something the setTimeout method:

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp

Edit: Quick note, but be sure to be careful, design it so that user agents without javascript support don't just see a big div in their way (unless that is your intention).
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@BelrickNov 07.2010 — PHP has no timing (can be put to sleep but not the same thing!).

however you can use setTimeout to call a Ajax function if PHP is doing all your page display.
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