Read this chapter of the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.connection-handling.php 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. > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
