RE: No ouput until program end, why?

does output buffering not work with command line PHP? http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php Tim Ward www.chessish.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Christian Imbeault [mailto:jean_christian@myrealbox.com] > Sent: 04 October 2002 05:59 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: No ouput until program end, why? > > > I am running a PHP program under Linux on the command line. > The problem > I have is that I get no output to the screen until the > program finishes. > > I have lots of echo statements throughout the program to help > me debug > but none of them are printed until the program finishes, > which is really > a pain since the prog takes 30 minutes to run ... > > The main() looks something like this. Can someone help me > figure out why > it is not printing anything until the program exists? > > pg_exec($CONN, "BEGIN"); > for ($i = 0; $i < 6001; $i++) { > $retval = process($aFields); > if ( ($i % 100) == 0 ) echo "$i\n"; > if ($retval == 1) echo "error on line $i \n"; > } > > echo "COMMIT \n"; > pg_exec($CONN, "COMMIT"); > > Thanks, > > Jc > >