curl

[zipp]

Hello, here is what I am trying to do:

use curl to get info from page2.php that is running the script:

 

<?
$i=0;
while($i < 100){
$i++;
sleep(1);
echo $i." ";
    flush();
    ob_flush();
}
?>

(Thank you l0ve2hat3 : )

 

I need the page1.php to update as page2.php updates.

 

Is there any way to do this?

[l0ve2hat3]

wait why?

[zipp]

Just to learn, and see if it is actually possible.

[zipp]

Is there a way to do it with includes? maybe?

[Northern Flame]

yea what you're trying to do really doesnt make sense,

cURL() is more for posting data and other stuff. what

you are trying to do can be done by either including that

file or just simply writing that code in page1.php

[zipp]

page1 and page2 will eventually be on different servers.  right now im playing with readfile() and see if i can get it to work with that.

[Guest]

Here's my interpretation.

 

You want page1.php to continually add the output of page2.php onto page1. If that's what you want, there's no "proper" way to do it with PHP alone. If you include it or even do readfile (btw, readfile will get you the code, not the result of the code) it won't update continuously. It'll just take its time, finishing the loop, before the user sees anything (unless you have output buffer off, or you're forcing the output buffer to flush, which you are). But it will NOT continue to load the rest of the page until that code is done. And my assumption is you want page2.php to run independently of page1.

 

Let me try to summarize it (in case the above is confusing): you want page1 to load completely, done, and for it to load the result of page2 somewhere into page1 continually.

 

I hope I'm not being confusing. Anyway.

 

The best way you may want to approach this is a mix of PHP and javascript/AJAX. Use AJAX to continually poll page2.php and print the result into page1.php.

[zipp]

The best way you may want to approach this is a mix of PHP and javascript/AJAX. Use AJAX to continually poll page2.php and print the result into page1.php.

 

I was afraid it would be something like that. Could you point me to a good tutorial, or supply a script of something similar?

[Guest]

You'll want to start ground up with Javascript and AJAX. If you're adept in PHP, javascript should come to you fairly quickly. You don't even need to take on javascript entirely to grasp AJAX. But I'd suggest it. If the page2.php you provided is all you want it to do, you can just do that in javascript without PHP at all.

 

Good PHP/AJAX tutorial:

http://www.ajaxf1.com/tutorial/ajax-php.html

 

Other references:

Javascript Tutorials:

http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/

 

AJAX tutorials

http://www.tizag.com/ajaxTutorial/

[zipp]

I decided to try something crazy, and echo an iframe with src of page2...

 

Unfortunately it screws up my page 2 output.

[Guest]

Very clever, theoretically that should work. What's the problem? And if you fix it, do share.

 

Although, I'm not much of a fan of iframes, but where it works, it works, no?

[zipp]

I'm not a big fan of frames either, but I'm trying all my options here.

 

What i am actually making is... not sure what you would call it... it pings a server 10 times, then averages the pings to get the "average ping time"... the first ping always works... here is what it looks like

 

0.0607 seconds  <-- normal

0.0057 seconds  <-- crazzy

0.0577 seconds  <-- normal

0.0041 seconds  <-- crazzy

0.0034 seconds  <-- crazzy

 

etc...

 

So I'm completely loss on this...

 

It only stopped working when I started using iframes.

[zipp]

0.0793 seconds

0.0736 seconds

0.0701 seconds

0.0714 seconds

0.0634 seconds

 

 

that is what i get without using iframes... all normal responses.

[zipp]

Anyone have any ideas?? Everything works fine, except for this part

[zipp]

how many ways r there to read a file?

 

curl

readfile

fopen

html frames

 

any others?

 

(is there an edit button?)