On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a need to output a progress counter from a PHP script that takes a
> while to run whilst writing a large number of records out to an SQL
> database, mainly so that the user knows that things are still happening
> and not hung.
>
> It seems a simple thing to do, but when I try it, the progress counter
> (say, every 100 records) instead of being output at the correct time, gets
> delayed until the whole process has finished.
>
> What is the best way to get around this problem.
not necessarily the *best* way:
<?php
$i = 0;
do {
print "hai thar<br />";
flush();
sleep(1);
$i++;
} while ($i < 15);
?>
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