ob_start help needed!

[mfacer]

Hi,

I'm just starting out with the object buffering method in PHP...its not working as I'd hoped, and I hope someone here can point me in the right direction!?

here's the scenario... I have thousands of records which need to be updated... each record has a "parent" record... eg:

ProcessID = 2.01 is ONE record which has say 200 other records all associated with it. These all need to be updated..... but then there are loads of processID's... eg:

1.01, 1.02 etc ALL have hundreds of records under them. Here's the OB code I have so far:

$process_array = $process->get_all_processes_by_org("demo");
for ($x=0;$x<sizeof($process_array)-1;$x++) {
	ob_start();
	$tmp = explode(",",$process_array[$x]);
	echo " - " . $tmp[0] . ""; #shows the processID eg: 2.01

$class->update_records(); #go and update ALL records based on the processID

echo " DONE!<BR>";

#it should out put the above, BEFORE moving on to the next processID
ob_end_clean();

}

I thought the way this works is that it will go and do the function, then print out "done" once its done it all, then the output will put that to screen - then it will go and do the next item in the loop, do that, then output DONE, etc....

am I missing the point?!
Cheers for ANY info!!!

Matt

[_RL_Ian]

You can't echo your results inside like that. You have to set create a variable with the results and then echo them after you call your ob_end_clean.

ie:

<?php
ob_start(); 
$class->update_records();
$result = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean(); 

echo ($result);
?>

check out the ob_get_contents() function.

Hope that helps.

[thorpe]

or, you could just replace ob_end_clean() with ob_flush().