Re: Output buffering

2009/10/7 Arno Kuhl <akuhl@telkomsa.net>: > Thanks David. After taking another look at the description for ob_start() I > began to suspect there was a difference, but the manual doesn't mention > anything about it. And the fact they use the same terminolgy for both the > settings and the functions is confusing. I can see from tests that the > htaccess/ini settings have no obvious effect on the ob functions (maybe > buffer size?). My understanding (and it's not 100% clear in the manual) is that the output buffering directive is overloaded - it can be used for both turning output buffering on and setting the size of the output buffer. Quote: ; Output buffering allows you to send header lines (including cookies) even ; after you send body content, at the price of slowing PHP's output layer a ; bit. You can enable output buffering during runtime by calling the output ; buffering functions. You can also enable output buffering for all files by ; setting this directive to On. If you wish to limit the size of the buffer ; to a certain size - you can use a maximum number of bytes instead of 'On', as ; a value for this directive (e.g., output_buffering=4096). output_buffering = 4096