note 37682 added to function.echo

I have been attempting to write a PHP script for shell. I have been having issues flushing the text from the buffer... echo "reading database: "; $output = exec("mysqldump databasename",$output) echo "[OK]/n"; Would wait till the script completed before outputting the text rather then printing the first portion, pausing while reading the database and then printing the "[OK]". So we (dma and I) that we needed to do an ob_flush(); how ever if there is no newline (/n) then ob_flush() does not output. For some odd reason the only thing that works is doing an ob_flush(); flush(); so it would look like this... echo "reading database: ";ob_flush();flush(); $output = exec("mysqldump databasename",$output) echo "[OK]/n";ob_flush(); on line 3 only the ob_flush(); is needed because there is a newline at the end. ... Master Merlin Cul Kirkkpatrick / TheFatherMind ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+37682 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+37682&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+37682&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php