Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/25/07 10:51

Vernon Wenberg III wrote:
> I have a script that processes a lot of data. Ideally it would be run
> from the CLI, however I want to run it from a browser, but I don't want
> the browser hanging on me forcing me to restart from scratch.
>
> My question is, how do I output data to the browser when something is
> processed when it is processed instead of having all the output come at
> once when the script is done?
>
> Is there a set amount of time where the page processing the data might
> time out? If so, how do I change this timeout to when the script is done?

Vernon,

There's no way to ensure the data will be displayed.

You can call flush() to force the output out of php. But the web server
is still free to cache it, and the browser may or may not display it
immediately.

You can't do much about the server, but browsers are more likely to
cache data if you have things like tables which haven't been closed yet
(</table not sent yet). But that's not necessarily the only reason.
Keeping the data simpler helps.

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