note 87084 added to function.flush

Situation: wanted to use a SPAN as a status tracker while my script executed, using javascript. I got the flush part right in PHP but it still wasn't working. Then I tried putting each javascript statement in its own block and that worked. Apparently the browsers buffer javascript blocks and don't refresh the page until the block is tied off. So if you ever want to do something like what I've described, instead of doing this: <? echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\n"; // processing echo "setStatus('Did this...');\n"; // more processing echo "setStatus('Did that...');\n"; // still more processing echo "setStatus('Done');\n</script>\n"; ?> Do this: <? echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">setStatus('Did this...');\n</script>\n"; // processing echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">setStatus('Did that...');\n</script>\n"; // more processing echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">setStatus('Done');\n</script>\n"; ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 66.210.181.98 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.flush.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/87084 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87084/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87084/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87084/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87084/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87084/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87084/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87084 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/87084 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php