Sleep() Stopping echo

[Rustywolf]

I found another topic about this but the solution was using the meta tag instead of sleep and header to reidrect

 

my code is

<?php

function slowecho($input)
{
	$input_letters = str_split($input);
	for($i = 0; $i <= count($input_letters); $i++)
	{
		echo $input_letters[$i]; //Wont echo. till its gone through loop every time.
		sleep(1);
	}
}

if($_GET['str'])
{
	slowecho($_GET['str']);
}
?>

 

Any help?

[teamatomic]

Here is an example for you to figure out what you need to do.

for($i=0;$i<50;$i++)
{
ob_start();
echo "$i<br>";
flush();
ob_end_flush();
sleep(1);
}

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[Rustywolf]

Sweet.

Although , care to expain a bit

i get their uses (thanks to php.net)

But not why it works...

[teamatomic]

It works because it uses the buffer to hold output then it is flushed to the screen. The script then sleeps>buffers>flushes all over again...and again...and again...

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic