Flush() Function

mike1977

Hi everybody!

I have a problem with flush().
I saw all the answers of past topics but i dont know what the problem really is now 🙂

I want to do the following easy thing:

$i = 1;
while($i < 5) {
echo "just a text<br>";
flush();
sleep(2);
$i++
}

i want to write all 2 seconds "just a text" in an html file without reloading the page.
Now he loads 10 seconds and then hes writing all the text, do somebody know where the problem really is?

thx a lot and bye, mike

Anon

ehmm, i had that same problem , or better to say i wanted to do the same thing you want to do.
I think our problem is the sleep funtion. I don't think php is able to do the stuff we want do to. I is able to wait a certain time (for i nstance 10 secs) and then do everything at once but i doubt whether it can to it the way you want it and have posted it in your post. (the for loop).

I definetly know it works with Java Script, but i don't knwo if that helped you.

But i would be glad if someone says the opposite and this way of coding is supported ...

regards ali

mike1977

Hi Ali

Thank you very much for your answer. Yesterday evening i had the code to make an output like we need him. But stupid liek i am, didnt i save this exact code to a separate file and now it doesnt work anymore. So im sure it have to work but i dont know how.. 🙂

greeetz mike

mike1977

Hi Developers!

I found maybe a solution for all the flush() problems.
I deleted the whole HTML-Tags in the File where i do the flush(). Then it worked.
After this i put tag by tag again to the file, after i putted the javascripts to the html-file-head, the flush() wouldnt run. I think that flush is running. It doesnt depend on proxy, firewall or browser. Strip your file down until only the echo() or print() command and your function is there and write flush() directly after the echo() or print() command. That should work.
On the server i try this is output_buffer on "no value" that means, no value is on!

greeetz mike