Printing from loop before it has ended.

alcedema

I'm trying to figure this out. Now normally a result of a oop is printed to the page after the script has completely executed. Now what I need (as the loop can take some time to do) is for the a result to print during the loop, before it ends.

Now i'm sure it has to do with the content types.. or buffers..

I have already tried

header("Content-type: multipart/mixed");

But that didn't seem to do anything..

Thanks for anyones help on this! 🙂

LordShryku

try using flush() after each pass through the loop

alcedema

now i'm sure that should have worked. I'm using the apache cygwin module, so thats the win32 ported version (i think 😉), and i'm sure win32 still buffers until the end even with flush()?

LordShryku

Cygwin??? Apache has a full version specifically for Windows....

alcedema

Its a long story.. wasnt going to use cygwin version in the end. Was just testing cygwin (and its capability with different modules) as my linux box just died.. then my windows server died, so while waiting for the parts, decided to rig up another machine to research the possibilty of using cygwin on windows, instead of linux entirely. It wasnt a case of using cygwin to get apache to work, i didnt even know apache came with it at first.

Anyway, i'd have the same problem wouldnt i, whether i use that standard cygwin module, or win32 apache.

If i compiled the linux version, albeit under cygwin, should flush then work as its using the linux api procedures, or will windows still buffer the output?

LordShryku

Well, I'm guessing that's Windows doing stupid things again if it isn't flushing. Sometimes, I can get around this by calling flush 3 times in a row, but it's a stupid Windows hack. You can try if ya want.

alcedema

Wish I could say it worked 🙁