how to buffer output

hi

vishal here. can anyone tell me that how to buffer output and then send
the output to client at a time.

what is my problem is that i have a php file which runs query on
database and takes some time to get query result. so what i want is i
want to buffer output till the query returns result and then send the
buffered output to client at a time.

thxs for help in advance.

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 05:17:49 -0800, vishal wrote:

> hi
>
> vishal here. can anyone tell me that how to buffer output and then send
> the output to client at a time.
>
> what is my problem is that i have a php file which runs query on database
> and takes some time to get query result. so what i want is i want to
> buffer output till the query returns result and then send the buffered
> output to client at a time.
>
> thxs for help in advance.

use output buffering:

on the first lin of your script ( the one that does db query) put :
ob_start();

// do your db query
// and setup resulting html
// the normal way (usning echo, print etc..)
// then just call:

ob_end_flush(); // this outputs output buffer and turns off output
buffering

On 2005-03-03, vishal <vishal_panjabi@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> hi
>
> vishal here. can anyone tell me that how to buffer output and then send
> the output to client at a time.
>
> what is my problem is that i have a php file which runs query on
> database and takes some time to get query result. so what i want is i
> want to buffer output till the query returns result and then send the
> buffered output to client at a time.
>

read the fine manual.... http://www.php.net/ob_start and others.....

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