Re: Streaming

ob_end_clean() goes at the top. flush() goes after *every* pice of info you want to show real-time. Basically, after every echo or group of echos. On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:43:39 -0500, Stephen Craton <webmaster@melchior.us> wrote: > > Thanks for this, but how do I use it? Do I just put the ob_end_clean() at > the opening the page I want to stream and then put flush() at the end? > > Thanks, > Stephen Craton > http://www.melchior.us > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: svk [mailto:svk@ksearch.f2o.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:25 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Streaming > > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 16:41, Stephenpp > > To use "streaming", you have to : > Turn off output buffering: ob_end_clean() and flush the output has it comes > : flush() > > It is useful to note that : > "Some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer will only start to display the > page after they have received 256 bytes of output, so you may need to send > extra whitespace before flushing to get those browsers to display the page. > " > > and > "Pad your output with necessary spaces, wrap your progressing data around > open (<table>) and end (</table>) tags, and then call flush() so that one > script will work for Netscape as well. > " > > > I was browsing the net and I found a PHP chat script that claimed that > > it does not refresh, rather it has "streaming text". This got my > > interest and was wondering how the script did it. I downloaded it's > > source code but couldn't find anything useful in it, very hard to read > > in my opinion. I did a search on PHP.net for streaming but I couldn't > > understand much of that, just my noobishness I suppose. > > > > How exactly would you go about streaming in PHP anyway? This has my > > interest now... > > > > Thanks, > > Stephen Craton > > http://www.melchior.us > > <http://www.melchior.us/> > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > !DSPAM:40db491f54512097234068! > > -- paperCrane --Justin Patrin--