Thanks, that did the trick!
Should've read the documentation on flush( ). =]
- Original Message -
From: Jason Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: php.general
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] flushing data as it's being generated
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 22:10, arch wrote:
Hi..
I'm using php to pull data from a mysql table and output it to the
browser.
Pretty basic stuff. The problem is that the output is very slow, seen
from
the browser end, because the html output isn't displayed at all until
all
the data has been retrieved. Actually it's just the table part of the
html that delays. Every table row corresponds to a row from the mysql
table, and many rows are being displayed.
However, I've seen php generated pages that display the data even as
it's
being pulled from the database. So the delay time isn't as hard to
endure.
I'm wondering if anyone knows what the trick is to output a large volume
of
html data from php in the second way. I've tried adding flush to the end
of
every iteration of the loop that's looping through the rows of data, but
it
doesn't help.
Most browsers only start rendering tables when they see the /table tag.
One
solution is to split your single table into multiple tables each with, say
10
rows. However one drawback using this method is that if you do not specify
the column widths then they can vary from table to table and it may look a
bit odd.
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