Why does this work but not on localhost?

mrbaseball34

I use a common function to "print" messages to the browser window like this:

<html>
<head>
	<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php

function showProgressMsg($msg)
{
  $h = date('H');
  echo $msg.": ".$h.":".date('i').":".date('s')."<br>";
  ob_flush();
	flush();
  usleep(25000);
}

  ini_set('output_buffering', 'Off');// delete the 4096k value
  ob_implicit_flush(true);
  $h = date('H');
  echo "Beginning import at: ".$h.":".date('i')."\n<br>";

  ob_start ();
  $x=0;
  // Do something
  while($x < 100) {
    $x++;
    showProgressMsg("Doing something.<br>");
  }
  $x=0;
  // Do something else
  while($x < 100) {
    $x++;
    showProgressMsg("Doing something else.<br>");
  }

  ob_end_clean();
  ini_set('display_errors', 0);
  ini_set('max_execution_time', 360);
  ini_set('output_buffering', 4096);
  $h = date('H');
  echo "Ended import at: ".$h.":".date('i')."\n<br>";

?>
</body>
</html>

But for some reason, when I run this on localhost, it waits until it is complete before outputting anything to the browser.

If I run it online, it does exactly like I'd expect.

Any ideas?

Krik

How windows handles it verses unix can vary a lot. I would point to that first.

After that I would be looking at settings. The hosting provider may have changed some setting in regards to how the server handles some tasks.