Page refresh + incremental output

[scrupul0us]

IS there a way to say make a page output a number then sleep for a certain number of seconds... then refresh and display number+1 and so forth so a set number of times?

i tried something like this:

for ($i=1;$i<=60;$1++)
{
echo $i;

sleep(5);
}

but all it does is sleep forever, then at the very end dumps each echo all at once

[Weedpacket]

Try chucking a [man]flush[/man] in there in an attempt to override any buffering that's going on.

[scrupul0us]

ive made several atempts @ using ob and all that but to no avail what so ever

[mberman]

It may be easier to make a page that refreshes itself using a META command, instead of trying to sleep the PHP. I've always had problems trying to use sleep().

Something like:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5">

The easiest solution maybe to have PHP do the incrementing through the meta tags, too (though this is kidna lame)... Like have the script print out:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=increment.php?next=7">

Then the PHP can take the GET value, print it, add one and make that the new value in the META tag, etc. If you're not starting at 0, you could add another GET variable to count the number of times it's been incremented, or set a ceiling at a certain number of times where the script doens't write a META tag out, whatever you like.

You can see this page for more info on META refresh tags, if you don't already know about them.