RE: [PHP] intermediate search screen

note: flush only works if u do a ob_flush after it >===== Original Message From shiflett@php.net ===== >--- "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote: >> No... You can't show some text on a page and then execute some PHP >> code to do your search... Remember how PHP works. By the time the >> browser loads, the PHP code is done. > >While this is true, PHP does support chunked transfer encoding. I use this with >Apache when I want to send output to the user prior to the completion of the >page. This is also how most chat rooms work. > >Basically, the content length is communicated for each chunk within the content >itself, so the Content-Length header is not necessary, nor is it necessary to >generate the entire output prior to sending it to the client. > >Look into the flush() function for more information (and some user notes about >how to work around IE deficiencies): > >http://www.php.net/flush > >Chris > >===== >Become a better Web developer with the HTTP Developer's Handbook >http://httphandbook.org/