PHP flush, sleep, and browsers…

December 22, 2009
php
browser
buffering
flush
output
php
sleep

If anything else doesn’t work, try this sample code:

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<?php
@apache_setenv('no-gzip', 1);
@ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 0);
@ini_set('implicit_flush', 1);
for ($i = 0; $i &lt; ob_get_level(); $i++) { ob_end_flush(); }
ob_implicit_flush(1);

// All you need is 256 spaces first
echo str_repeat(" ", 256); ob_flush();
for($i=0;$i&lt;10;$i++)
{
   echo $i,' ';
   ob_flush();
   sleep(1);
}