如果未启用javascript，用户如何知道提交成功？

Question

I'm in a weird situation. I just found out that near 50% of my users don't have javascript enabled. Most of my website is based on a lengthy search function. Once users click submit, the function executes, and we send them an email when it's finished - this can sometimes take up to 10 minutes.

My issue is that I don't know how to tell users the button was clicked successfully to start this long function if they have javascript disabled. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Once submitted, spawn a php process that does the search and return immediately with the page saying the job was submitted.

The php reference talks about this, with a comment stating that you would call the process using nohup so that it doesn't die when the caller returns. php.net exec function