Forget the question -- I found the link I needed: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php
"Jason Caldwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Can someone explain output_buffering to me? I looked on php.net -- but > cannot find reference to it -- it's a setting in the PHP.INI file. > > In my *production* .ini version, the output_buffering tag is set to 4096 > (4k) -- what exactly is the intent of this tag? > > What brought this question up was when I upgraded from 4.1.1 to 4.2.1, and > this time decided to use the production level .ini file -- when I ran a > script from my command line -- no output was appearing -- that is, I have > print() functions throughout my looping script -- and it wasn't > outputting -- I set the output_buffering tag to equal 0 -- and my looping > script now displays the text I want it to. > > Is it that when a script exits or terminates that this 4k buffer gets > flushed out (in this case) to my screen? > > What additional processing occurs if this tag is set to off, or 0 (zero) ? > > Thanks > Jason > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
