loop delay in while function

[worshiploud]

I have seen this question asked on many boards and I have never seen an answer that worked or even addressed the question.

Lets say I have a game that depicts a battle.
As the battle ensues the volley results are displayed on the page.

The current php code has the entire battle displayed all at once.

I wanted there to be a 2 second delay between the volley displays.

example this is what is displayed by the script

player1 hits player2 and deals 24 damage.

player2 hits player1 and deals 21 damage.

I don't want the page to be delayed.
I want the output delayed.

I have seen 1 question on this board that was just like this question.
I don't think the sleep function will cause the output to delay.

as The loop runs, one line of output should be displayed
and after 2 seconds the next line of output should be displayed
and so on until the loop is broken by the code.

everything is working right now except for the delay.

[NogDog]

Depending on the server configuration, you may be able to do it with a combination of [man]sleep/man and [man]flush/man, but some web server configurations will not "honor" your flush() request, doing their own output buffering instead.

while(something)
{
   echo "foobar<br>\n";
   sleep(2);
   flush();
}

If that won't work for you, then you'll probably have to drive it from the client side via JavaScript.