Report on Progress of PHP Scripts

jtmerchant

I have a script that downloads 5-15 webpages at one time. It takes from 5-30 seconds. This is a long time. I want to be able to know the progress, ie. know how many and which pages. I considered, at first, using echo. The problem is that it doesn't show the echo until the end of the script. So I don't know what to do.

Envex

I honestly don't know, but there must be something similar in PHP. I know in Perl, you would just use:

$| = 1;

That will make it so the output is displayed immediately, instead of waiting until the end of execution. There must be something similar in PHP, but sorry, no idea...

thorpe

take a look at [man]ob_flush/man.

jtmerchant

Well I did... and I tried it. I don't think I understand it's use. I put this at the top of my code:

ob_start();
echo "Script starting...<br>";
ob_flush();
flush();
ob_end_flush();

And it didn't print out "Script starting...<br>" until the script finished. Am I doing something wrong?