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Posted by Rik on 08/04/07 20:23
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:57:04 +0200, Mad Hatter <colin@class31.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've written a little routine for backing up a large(ish) mysql database.
> Basically what I want it to do is echo to the screen 'backing up table
> 1',
> 'backing up table 2' etc as it's going along. The routine runs along the
> following lines
>
> while ($i < $tables) {
> echo "Backing up table $i";
>
> opens a file here
> it reads the table from the database here
> writes it to a file here
> closes file
>
> }
>
> I expected after each read/write it would output "Backing up table x" but
> it reads/writes them all and then echoes all the backing up text in one
> go.
> What am I doing wrong?
There's a caching/buffer mechanism somewhere. Try to use flush() after
each echo, maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't: it can depend on server &
browser. See the description & user contributed notes in the manual for
flush().
--
Rik Wasmus
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