Re: Progress output

On Sunday 05 January 2003 03:25, Micah Stevens wrote: > I just wrote a script that goes through a database and does a lot of > stuff to the data, it takes about 30 seconds to a minute to run through > everything, so I thought it would be nice to show a progress indicator > of some sort. What I have at this point, is that after every record is > processed, I put in an: > > echo "."; > > command. I just noticed though, that nothing will get sent to the > browser until the script is finished, so it's worthless to output the > periods. Is there a way to get the browser to display partial data > before it's done downloading the page (or before the script execution is > done in this case..)? > > I'm not doing any output buffering, or sending headers or anything at > this point, just SQL commands and echo output. > > Oh, I'm running php 4.2.2 Short answer: flush() Longer answer: search the archives (both php-general & php-db), it's been covered many times before. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* static buildup */