Re: Sending data to browser periodically

Ben, No fork() command exists in PHP unfortunately. --Clive ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Wiechman" <neteru@aminal.net> To: "Php-General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:15 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Sending data to browser periodically > Would it not work to fork a new process with the only job in life to send > periodic output to the browser? > > I know you can fork a new process in perl, I haven't looked at PHP to see if > you can do this, but if PHP will let you fork a new process, that might be > an option. Parent process can handle your request. Child can print data to > the browser, then sleep. Provided PHP will let you fork() and sleep(). > > Anyone know any more about this? > > Ben > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boget, Chris [mailto:Chris.Boget@wild.net] > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 0855 Neteru > To: 'moshe doron'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Sending data to browser periodically > > > > echo "\r\n"; flush(); > > This won't work if the back end is hung up on a > query that is taking > 5 minutes to run. > > Chris > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >