Re: Transparent session handling

Peter Kovacs wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Michael Stearne wrote: > > > I was told the difference is negligible, but it it is a big page and takes a long > > time to process (10 seconds?) then the user doesn't have anything on the screen > > for 10 seconds and gets everything at once. This might be annoying to the user, > > but I don't know if performance suffers. > > > > I don't see why cookies or no cookies would matter for output buffering. Why do > > you say that? > > > > Michael > > The difference is, the output doesn't need to be buffered if the user has > cookies enabled (the bug doesn't happen when the sid is passed as a > cookie). > Oh, but there are other reasons to use it, like if you want to do header or MIME stuff. > > There doesn't appear to be any documentation on the output buffering. Is > there any way to do an incremental flush? Rather than just one big flush > at the end? > ob_get_contents() I believe returns the contents right now. I saw a little documentation on it somewhere but I forget where, php.net or zend.com Michael