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

Start your investigation here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/FAQ-F.html#nph-scripts

Answer 2

function printnow($str, $bbreak=true){
    print "$str";
    if($bbreak){
        print "<br />";
    }
    ob_flush(); flush();
}

Obviously this isn't going to behave if you pass it complicated objects (or at least those that don't implement __toString) but, you get the idea.