CodeSOD: Making Progress

Whenever a program needs to perform a long running process, it's important that it supplies some sort of progress indicator, so the user knows that it's running. Sometimes it's a throbber, a progress bar, an hourglass, or the infamous spinning beachball of death.

Ready for Geocities"

Carol inherited this PHP code, which wants to use a series of dots ("".")

/*snip */$count = 0;while ($task) { /* run the task */ $count++; if ($count == 50) { $dots = "."; if ($dotCount == 2) { $dots = ".."; } if ($dotCount == 3) { $dots = "..."; } if ($dotCount == 4) { $dots = "...."; } if ($dotCount == 5) { $dots = "....."; } if ($dotCount == 6) { $dots = "......"; } $dotCount++; if ($dotCount >= 7) { $dotCount = 1; } }}/*snip */

Let's wait and see if the original developer can come up with a better idea

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