Re: No output

you can't stream output like that.......netscape will wait until your HTML output is done, but if you're infinitely looping, it won't be, and you'll never get your </body></html> tags.....i've seen a number of posts trying to do chats and flush() the output, but bottom line, if you don't send it a complete html file, it won't be happy.....one suggestion: you could try sending a complete file, then refreshing it every few seconds.....but, there would be better ways to do this (like java) -jack "Sean B." wrote: > > I'm attempting to write a chat which streams HTML. There's a problem with the > main function that's responsible for 'streaming'. It loops endlessly and if > anytihng new appears in the database, it parses it into HTML and outputs it > via the echo command. The chatboxDisplay method is what is responsible for > parsing and echoing the message and the HTML for it. This is the problem > code. The code is syntactically correct; it runs, in fact, if you remove the > while stuff, it DOES work, except for the fact that it doesn't 'stream' like > it should (Because it's not looping. It fires the output and the script > ends). So when I put the while brackets back on to make it 'stream', there's > no output. (as in, in netscape 4.7x it doesn't send much anything. the screen > remains grey and just perpetually loads nothing) Any ideas as to what the > heck is going on? > > Thanks. > > ------- > > while (1) { > > $posts=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM chat ORDER BY date DESC;") or die > ("Query failed line 111"); > $data=mysql_fetch_array($posts); > > while ($data=mysql_fetch_array($posts)) { > chatboxDisplay($data); > if ($data[id] > $id) { $id = $data[id]; } > } > > flush(); > sleep(2); > > } > > -- > 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