Re: Outputting HTML with PHP - Buffer Problem?

Nick Wilson wrote:

Hi all, Say i have a php script like this: <?php print(html_head()); // do loads of time taking stuff print(html_footer()); ?> How come I dont see the html header (it's just a function that returns a string with the html up till <body>) before the entire script has run? This goes against my understanding, why might this be and what might i use to get some output before the script has finished executing? Much thanks... that's because it's all sent as 1 single big chunk of data. To get around this, you should set implicit_flush to 1 (it's in php.ini). Otherwise, you can also use the PHP ob_implicit_flush() to do this. Setting it to 1 will flush the output buffer everytime it's written to, if set to 0 it will do as normal, and buffer it all to send it together.