Re: Text Streaming in PHP

On 05/31/2004 04:28 PM, Stephen Lake wrote:

I know I asked this before a couple of weeks ago, but I need a good swift kick in the right direction :D I need to know how to do a text stream in PHP. I have tried the following: while loop with flush and sleep functions HTTP/1.1 Connection: Stream (seems to work in the above while loop until you post something then its like it stalls completely) Are there any other ways? I was looking at GTChat lastnight and it mentioned about sending a file "line by line" to achieve a server push like effect....anyone know how to do this? Only way I will consider Java is if it will stream a HTML page and someone can point me in a direction to grab one Any help in the above questions would be greatly appreciated.

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