http://php.net/flush may be of interest. On Wed, October 25, 2006 2:35 am, Matt Beechey wrote: > I am writing a php website for users to edit a global whitelist for > Spam > Assassin - all is going fairly well considering I hadn't ever used php > until > a couple of days ago. My problem is I need to restart AMAVISD-NEW > after the > user saves the changes. I've acheived this using SUDO and giving the > www-data users the rights to SUDO amavisd-new. My problem is simply a > user > friendlyness issue - below is the code I'm running - > > if(isset($_POST["SAVE"])) > { > file_put_contents("/etc/spamassassin/whitelist.cf", > $_SESSION[whitelist]); > $_SESSION[count]=0; > echo "Restarting the service.........</A></P>"; > exec('sudo /usr/sbin/amavisd-new reload'); > echo "Service was restarted...... Returning to the main page."; > sleep(4) > echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=index.php">'; > } > > The problem is that the Restarting the Service dialogue doesn't get > displayed until AFTER the Service Restarts even though it appears > before the > shell_exec command. I've tried exec and passthru and its always the > same - I > want it to display the "Service was restarted" - wait for 4 seconds > and then > redirect to the main page. Instead nothing happens on screen for the > browser > user until the service has restarted at which point they are returned > to > index.php - its as if the exec and the sleep and the refresh to > index.php > are all kind of running concurently. > > Can someone PLEASE tell me what I'm doing wrong - or shed light on how > I > should do this. > > Thanks, > > Matt > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
