Methods ob_start and ob_flush don't work, why?

I am using ob_start()/ob_flush() to, hopefully, give me some progress during a long import operation.

Here is a simple outline of what I'm doing:

<?php
ob_start ();

echo "Connecting to download Inventory file.<br>";
$conn = ftp_connect($ftp_site) or die("Could not connect");

echo "Logging into site download Inventory file.<br>";
ftp_login($conn,$ftp_username,$ftp_password) or die("Bad login credentials for ". $ftp_site);

echo "Changing directory on download Inventory file.<br>";
ftp_chdir($conn,"INV") or die("could not change directory to INV");

//      connection, local, remote, type, resume
$localname = "INV"."_".date("m")."_".date('d').".csv";
echo "Downloading Inventory file to:".$localname."<br>";

ob_flush();
flush();
sleep(5);

if (ftp_get($conn,$localname,"INV.csv",FTP_ASCII)) 
{
    echo "New Inventory File Downloaded<br>";
    $datapath = $localname;
    ftp_close($conn);
} else {
    ftp_close($conn);
    die("There was a problem downloading the Inventory file.");      
}
ob_flush();
flush();
sleep(5);

$csvfile = fopen($datapath, "r"); // open csv file
$x = 1;
// skip the header line
$line = fgetcsv($csvfile);
$y = (feof($csvfile) ? 2 : 5);
while ((!$debug) ? (!feof($csvfile)) : $x <= $y) {
    $x++;
    $line = fgetcsv($csvfile);
    // do a lot of import stuff here with $line
    ob_flush();
    flush();
    sleep(1);
}

fclose($csvfile); // important: close the file
ob_end_clean();

However, nothing is being output to the screen at all.

I know the data file is getting downloaded because I watch the directory where it is being placed.

I also know that the import is happening, meaning that it is in the while loop, because I can monitor the DB and records are being inserted.

Any ideas as to why I am not getting output to the screen?

Geek Num 88

You also need to check the PHP settings

some installs default to 4096, some default to off

output_buffering = Off
output_buffering = 4096

agreed with George but do check the above settings

Make sure that your output buffering doesn't start automatically. Run:

print ob_get_level ();

before ob_start (); if will will see something else then 0 you've got the answer.

Hey man I was also got stuck in this problem and finally got the correct solution here it is for you

you have to add content type for your page you can do that by two ways 1. using html tag

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Ex.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Wp Migration</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php 
for($i=0;$i<70;$i++)
{
echo 'printing...<br>';
ob_flush();
flush();
sleep(3);
}
?>
</body>
</html>

using php header function

<?php header( 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' ); ?>

Ex.

<?php 
header( 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
for($i=0;$i<70;$i++)
{
echo 'printing...<br>';
ob_flush();
flush();
sleep(3);
}
?>

All the best

Ob_end_clean() discards the contents of the current output buffer and turns off the buffering. You should use ob_end_flush() instead.

Add this line

header("X-Accel-Buffering: no");

worked for me.

It's possible that your webserver is doing its own buffering. Probably with something like mod_gzip.

Here is some very simple test code:

<?php
echo 'starting...<br/>';
for($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++) {
  print "$i<br/>";
  flush();
  sleep(2);
}
print 'DONE!<br/>';

If it takes 10 seconds for that page to load, rather than seeing a new line every 2 seconds, then it means that it is being cached by your webserver. For what you are trying to do, there is no need to use ob_start and ob_flush. Just call flush whenever you want to force the content to the browser. However, like I mentioned, if the webserver is waiting for the content to complete before sending, then that won't do anything for you.

Edit: Another possibility is that you're viewing the page from behind a corporate or ISP proxy/firewall that waits for the whole page before serving it (so that it can scan it to see if it looks like pornography, for example).

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2837006/methods-ob-start-and-ob-flush-dont-work-why

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