Need a character based "activity meter"

[scrupul0us]

If you recall you days using linux or almost any CLI, some programs would giving you a "spining tube"

i.e: | / - \ | / - \ |

as the program was running.... is there a way to recreate this with php in a function that i can call and just have it continually run and display this as long as i need it?

[thorpe]

Never tried it, but maybe something like...

while (true) {
  ob_start();
  $array = ('|','/','-','\\','|','/','-','\\','|');
  for ($i=0;$i<=8;$i++) {
    echo $array[$i];
    ob_flush();
  }
}

Really cant see it working though.... ????