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Progress Bar

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Progress Bar Lib

There are two Progress Bar libs avaiable in Moodle, the old one and a OOP one.

Old Progress Bar

function print_progress($done, $total, $updatetime=5, $sleeptime=1, $donetext='')

OOP Progress Bar

Usage:

set_time_limit(0);
$pb = new progressbar('bar', 500);
$pb->create();
$num_tasks = 200; // the number of tasks to be completed.
for($cur_task = 0; $cur_task <= $num_tasks; $cur_task++)
{
    for ($i=0; $i<100000; $i++)
    {
        ;;;
    }
    $pb->update($cur_task, $num_tasks, 'this is'. $cur_task . 'h');
}
?>
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<?php
$pt = new progressbar('zbar', 900);
$pt->create();
$num_tasks = 200; // the number of tasks to be completed.
for($cur_task = 0; $cur_task <= $num_tasks; $cur_task++)
{
    for ($i=0; $i<100000; $i++)
    {
        ;;;
    }
    $pt->update($cur_task, $num_tasks, 'this is'. $cur_task . 'h');
}