Re: register_shutdown_function - uses for

"Greig, Euan" <Euan.Greig@brann.com> wrote: > I was hoping that I could use this function to enable me to finish scripts tidily > when they time out or are aborted by the user. eg display the message "script > timed out". However this will not work as no output is allowed in the shutdown > function. I can see other ways to do what I want (but suggestions would > always be welcome) but the real point of this email is this: what sort of thing > would you use register_shutdown_function to achieve? I've used it for database inserts or calls to external programs that took a long time, but did not affect the output sent to the browser. In those cases I used register_shutdown_function() inside a control structure to call another function (after outputting HTML from within the same control structure). -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/