multi-threading with PHP? or what?

At least I think that's how to do this... I'm building a page that uses curl to get a response from a bunch of other webpages, say 20 or so. I want the resulting page to do something like what happens at digpagerank.com. The page is built, then inside a table each row separately goes out, gets what it needs, and displays the result. In the meantime, it show a little message - like the "digging data" one at digpagerank.com. So, how do I do that? I have curl working just fine, but it's slow. I'm getting multi-threading working, but I'm not sure how to a) get the page to display before curl starts, and b) get an image to display while I'm getting the page info.

Ideas? Am I going about this wrong?

 

He uses AJAX for this, I think he creates new AJAX request for each data he wishes to digg.

 

check on http://ajaxpatterns.org/ , are some good stuff you want to read regarding your problem.

 

Cool, thanks guys!