can't flush apache on win

[Anon]

I have a problem with my Apache v1.3.14 running under Win2000.

I am desperately needing to show content because if I don't apache will abort the script after a certain amout of time. Since my script compiles other files into PHP-Files it might take a long time to finish probably going over the time-limit.

I have tried to flush() the content and on IIS or PWS that works just fine. Other output handlers didn't help as well.

1. How do I make Apache flush the content?
2. if that don't work where can I set that timelimit so apache doesn't abort the script after that certain amout of time?

[mithril]

Try using the set_time_limit() method to extend the scripts life (the default TTL is 30 seconds BTW). The method accepts an integer as an argument which specifies the TTL in seconds.

@set_time_limit(10000);

For example, this sets your script execution maximum to 10,000 second, or about 2.8 hours. Regarding output handlers, if you're running PHP 4.0.5 or later which zLib support you might want to look into the ob_gzhandler() method. Basically it checks if the requesting browser supports compressed content and then sends the output buffer using either gzip or deflate. It can be used by placing the following line above all output in your scripts:

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

HTH,

Geoff A. Virgo