Is there a way to have PHP print the data to a web browser in real time?

Question

For example, if I have an echo statement, there\'s no guarantee that the browser might display it right away, might display a few dozen echo statements at once, and might wa

Answer 1

Enabling implicit flush as blueyed said should do the trick since it calls flush after every echo however some browsers also require no-cache headers to be set. Here is what I use. Your mileage may vary depending on the browser.

header('Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate');
header('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT'); // Date in the past
header('Pragma: no-cache');