http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.register-shutdown-function.php Cheers, Rob. On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 23:40, Liang ZHONG wrote: > I now encounter a problem with flow control of my program with PHP. This is > very crucial to the design of a pretty big project. This is what I want to > do in the program: > > <?php > do_A(); > header("Location: ".$result_of_do_A); > do_B(); > ?> > > Since it takes do_B() quite a while to finish, so I want the http client > get the partial result from do_A() by redirect a page to them before start > do_B(). But it seems that the redirection will only occure after the entire > php program finishes, i.e., after do_B(). I sent http request through > browser, curl comman line with -N (no buffer) option and with a perl LWP > program I wrote. All of them suggest that header(), although is put before > do_B() in code, gets executed only after all the php code finished. I add > flush() after header() too, but no work. > > My question is: Is there any way that I can return to the client though http > response and then continue my progress with my program? > > Thank you very much for your kindly help. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php