Re: Sending htm as it's being generated

Brent Baisley <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 9 May 2005 09:04:45 -0400

Bottom line is that you can't do it reliably with PHP or anything on 
the server. Different browsers will display content at different times. 
I think Internet Explorer will only display something after it gets a 
certain amount of information (i.e. 18k) or the entire page. I don't 
think any browser displays content if it is "between" tags. Like an 
open table or something.

As others have mentioned, look into using the AJAX technology and 
javascript to reliably update your page.

On May 8, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Kirsten wrote:

How do I make the browser to display data as it being generated? I've
noticed some websites do this with cgi.
For example:

<html>
<head>
<title>XXX</title>
</head>
<body>

<%
$i = 0;
while (true){
  echo "<p>" . $i++ . "</p>";
  sleep(1);
}
%>
</body>
</html>

This scripts does not work: It only shows 0,1,2,3....[29] when the 
timeout

limit is reached.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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