php flush timer

[poofried]

can anyone help me with this script...im trying to create a php flush timer that outputs a different number every second..but its not working. i need the timer to change from 10 to 9 to 8..and just change numbers to the user until 0

 

ob_flush();
flush();

for ($i=10; $i>0; $i--)
{
echo $i-1 . "<br />";
ob_flush();
flush();
sleep(1);
}    

ob_end_flush();

[poofried]

BUMP

[trq]

You'll need to do this client-side using javascript, not php.

[poofried]

why? i thoght php could do anything

[gizmola]

It's not that php can't send portions of a page -- it can.  But that doesn't seem to be what you're trying to do.  Sending parts of an HTTP response is tricky stuff and involves all sorts of intermediary issues that can interfere with your intentions from proxies to the anti-virus someone is using.  If you want a page that sends (IN HTML!)

 

1

2

3

4

 

etc.

 

Yes you can do that, but to what end I don't know, AND it's really tricky to deal with buffering, AND it won't work the way you want for some clients (as mentioned earlier).  For  all those reasons, thorpe is pushing you towards a clientside solution, which could be pure javascript or AJAX if it needs to be something more complicated.

 

 

[poofried]

so php suck?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Only when you attempt to get a web server to do something it was not designed to do.

[gizmola]

so php suck?

 

Yes, I'm sure that Yahoo and Google and Facebook and (10 million other websites) agree with you that PHP sucks, although they continue to use it.  If only you were there to share your insights with them.