Topic awaiting preservation: PHP - output while processing? (Page 1 of 1)

Hi All, another querky question...

Is it possible to have php code output to the browser WHILE it is processing, rather than waiting till the entire script has processed then start outputting?

The reason for this is I have some database queries that take a little while, and it would be nice to display the results in the "chunks" they are proccessed.

any ideas?

Thanks

Having tested it a bit it almost seems to do what i want - but not quite... it does start displaying data but kind of lags behind. Like it has showed part of the first group but doesnt show the rest of the first group until the second group has finished processing...

I wonder if there is a way to control it?

you can call php->flush() which will send all accumulated data to the browser.
But it's up to the browser wether that actually get's shown on screen.

Your a world of knowledge TP, ill check it out thanks.

oh, and the back of my brain just mentioned that there seemed to be some combination of php and apache on windows years back that flushed() only the first time, and never again in that script...

I seem to recall flush() doesn't always work unless the buffer is full? I could be wrong.