#23877 [Bgs->Opn]: ob_implicit_flush does not work

ID: 23877 User updated by: sthomas at townnews dot com Reported By: sthomas at townnews dot com -Status: Bogus +Status: Open Bug Type: Output Control Operating System: Redhat Linux PHP Version: 4.3.2 New Comment: So... did you read the report at all? Did you see the part where I quoted the PHP documentation? Let me do it again: "Turning implicit flushing on will disable output buffering, the output buffers current output will be sent as if ob_end_flush() had been called." Therefore, according to this, calling ob_implicit_flush *IMPLIES A CALL TO OB_END_FLUSH*! What part of YOUR OWN DOCUMENTATION do you not understand? Either the documentation is wrong, or PHP is wrong. Whichever it is, fix it so there's at least some consistancy. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-29 21:07:05] iliaa@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php You should've used ob_end_flush(); instead of ob_implicit_flush();. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-29 15:51:03] sthomas at townnews dot com Please note that the manual says this: "Turning implicit flushing on will disable output buffering, the output buffers current output will be sent as if ob_end_flush() had been called." Now, I've set output_buffering = 0 in my php.ini script, so supposedly ob_implicit_flush will flush any buffers started by the script itself, and continue flushing output thereafter. Try this: <?PHP ob_start(); ob_implicit_flush(1); while(1) { print "Hi!"; sleep(1); } ?> This script will not output "Hi!" after each iteration through the loop. Supposedly the documented behavior of ob_implicit_flush is to flush all output buffers once it's called, and disable output buffering for further statements that produce output (print, etc.) So either the documentation is wrong, or there's a bug in ob_implicit_flush. You decide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23877&edit=1