Echo messages while php script still executes

Question

I have a php script that uses cURL and takes about 10-15 minutes to execute. What it does, it parses about 1000 pages looking for specific matches and throughout the script I ha

Answer 1

Actually you're looking for something like flush and ob_flush, however bear in mind that there are a lot of factors that can prevent your output from being flush'd as it happens.

From the flush documentation you'll get:

Several servers, especially on Win32, will still buffer the output from your script until it terminates before transmitting the results to the browser.

Server modules for Apache like mod_gzip may do buffering of their own that will cause flush() to not result in data being sent immediately to the client.