AW: [PHP] Screen Refresh (possible?)

flush(); ( close all tables around the content otherwise it is not displayed) > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Toby Miller [mailto:tmiller@creativegeneration.com] > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 27. September 2000 17:02 > An: php-general@lists.php.net > Betreff: [PHP] Screen Refresh (possible?) > > Hey all, > > I've run across a situation that doesn't seem to have a > resolution. I hope I'm wrong about that. > > If I have a memory/cpu intensive process running in one of my > scripts (intensive enough to keep calling set_time_limit to > keep it going) then I am unable to print results/updates to > the screen during the process. I have tried this with no > success. Any ouput I attempt to push to the screen doesn't > show up until the process is complete. > > What I'm actually doing is checking an email pop account. I > would like to send a javascript call after every message > downloaded (in another frame) to update a progress counter to > let the user know what's going on. Without this ability a lot > of users may think the script is failing or stalled and hit > cancel or reload. > > The only point of reference I can come up with is writing a > windows app in Visual Basic. You can cause a form to refresh > during a process like this which will correctly update the > form. Does anyone know of any way to get the same result in > PHP for the browser? > > Thanks in advance, > Toby >