Images - Remove

[Alikan]

Hi, I'm new to PHP, but I am familiar with another progaming laungage, so dont get to complex unless your good at explaining plz

I am trying to create a log in, and I want it to look fancy when you click the submit button, so I made a loading gif appear. I want it to wait 1 second, before removing itself. Im stuck on the removing part, as I dont know how to call the image, this is my PHP code:

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<?php
$Enter = $_POST['enter'];
$User = $_POST['user'];
$Pass = $_POST['pass'];

if (isset($_POST['enter'])) {
   echo "<img src='images/load.gif' name='img' width='220' height='19'>";
   sleep(3);
   imagedestroy(???);
}
?>

I will soon replace the sleep(3); with a database connection.

You can see that where I put the ??? is where im stuck on. If anyone could help, that would be great

[NigelRen]

The problem is that the loading gif will only be displayed once the form is displayed. As your including the login code on the form - by the time the form is sent to the user, the login is already complete.
The time it takes to login should be tiny ( hopefully less than the 3 second sleep ), add in network delays and to be honest - I wouldn't bother with it.
A case of nice idea - but not really practical.