Dynamic Output

[manjit]

I want to create a webpage that will fetch 200-500 sites at once and check for a string entered by a user and will display if the string was found or not.
With PHP i think the page dosen't show up until the whole page has been completed(not too sure about the latest versions of PHP but previous versions displayed the pages only when the script ended) but i want to show the status in real time.

One method i thought was to create a image.php script which is called for each site with the site URL and text arguments and returns a Success or Error IMAGE. But now suppose if there were 300 sites and calling image.php 300 times sound efficient ?

If there are any other ways please enlighten me.

Thanx..

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Manjit

[sarahk]

you could do the image idea and that might infact be the best way.

that way you have one page which is quickly loaded with 300 images waiting to be processed.

The images are threaded so you may get better performance than if you waited for a single script to process.

check out this thread: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10249912