Posted by ZeldorBlat on 06/21/06 14:04

no@emails.thx wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a PHP script that updates a very large table and in the code I
> echo some text to show the progress of the update but the text only
> appears when the page has finished displaying.
>
> Is there any way (through html headers?) to force the page to update
> in real time, while the PHP script is still executing?
>
> I have seen similar thngs on webmin pages when it is downloading
> updates and it is nothing fancy (graphics etc) - just text.
>
> Thanks
> Chris R.

The browser is free to buffer things however it likes, but you could
try putting a flush() somewhere in there to force PHP to send its
output. So:

/* echo some text */
flush();
/* echo some more text */
flush();
/* etc... */

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