Re: Progress output

Heh.. I did.. Thanks! -Micah On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 12:05, Jason Wong wrote: > 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 > */ -- Raincross Technologies Development and Consulting Services http://www.raincross-tech.com