Pre Caching Screen While Waiting For Results / Page Load

How to create a screen to keep users interested while a page loads.

[Angelis]

Hi

I have a site that generates whois quieries, securiy reports on domains etc and thus because of this it can take a while for pages / content to be cache and loaded into the browser.

I was wondering if there is a way to create a loading screen until the page is generated. Perhaps this could be done with javascript however the rest of the site is php and id like to keep it that way.

Does anyone know of any code examples or can help in some other way?

An example of what I need would be something like you get on hotscripts when you search for something.

Any help appreciated...

Thanks in advance...

[R e b r a n d t]

[en.wikipedia.org...]

[Angelis]

Spot on thank you...

[tomda]

Is this what used Google in Gmail (loading...)?

[R e b r a n d t]

Yes.