[SOLVED] Does PHP clean up properly at the end of file if an ob_start is unflushed?

[da__smith]

Hi PHP Freaks

 

 

Does PHP clean up properly (i.e. ob_flush();flush()  if an ob_start is unflushed/uncleaned before the end of the PHP file?

PHP version 5 is in use.

 

To illustrate the question I know that the following, very much simplified, example outputs PHP/HTML to the browser:

 

---PHP file, called by the browser, start---

 

ob_start();

...PHP/HTML

 

---PHP file, called by the browser, end---

 

The buffer is outputted to the browser, which means that PHP flushes at the end of the PHP file. Does PHP flush/clean *everything* at the end of the file? Will there be any server/PHP issues with this?

 

 

all the best

Dave

 

[aschk]

PHP cleans up EVERYTHING at the end of any http request so whether it's flushed or not shouldn't affect anything being held in memory after the request has been completed.

 

If only we actually had persistence in PHP (without sessions)... "oh hark ye olde days of desktop programming!"

[haku]

output buffering (ob_start) is lazy programming and shouldn't be used.

[da__smith]

@haku: Aside from the lazy programming label, Why should it not be used? Is there a technical or performance reason for not using it?

[da__smith]

Thanks aschk for your help

 

all the best

Dave