Breaking out of a loop

[Anon]

When i enter into a loop, how, by pressing any key, can i break out of that loop?

[[deleted]]

You can't.

[Anon]

are you positive, like i can't call a function that checks to see if there was a key press, it just locks the application up until its done.

[mrskhris]

Brent,

you're dealing with a language that is intended for server-side applications.
First of all, do you understand how the client-server technology works? Client (browser) sends a request to the server. Server runs php script, waits until the full completion of the script and the send the output back to the client. There is no immediate interaction between the client machine and server machine. If user press a button, he does it on the client machine, and at this moment there is no link with server machine or script whatsoever.

Perhaps you should look into Java applets, if you nees some interaction on client side.

[cordex]

Actually, you guys need to qualify this. There is no key or key combination on the client side that will handle breaking out of a loop while it is running

There is a key on the back of almost every server that works perfectly for this.

Of course, booting back up takes some time.

[mrskhris]

Brent,

what are you actually trying to do? I'm afraid, I don't understand your problem.