How can i send 'eof' to the client?

[S. C. Jeong]

I want to send 'eof' kind of message after some processes. Die or exit
cannot be used because there are some more processes to complete, but
nothing major to users.

<?php
phpinfo ();
//i want to finish the process here!!
//flush () //? doesnt work?
sleep (10); // mimic of (not)complicate d process
?

Help me to solve this problem :)

Calvin J

[Bent Stigsen]

Re: How can i send 'eof' to the client?

S. C. Jeong wrote:[color=blue]
> I want to send 'eof' kind of message after some processes. Die or exit
> cannot be used because there are some more processes to complete, but
> nothing major to users.
>
> <?php
> phpinfo ();
> //i want to finish the process here!!
> //flush () //? doesnt work?
> sleep (10); // mimic of (not)complicate d process
> ?[/color]

There might be many reasons why it doesn't work, as mentioned in the
manual along with hints of what to do.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.flush.php

Depending on how it is supposed to work, you might want to use
"ignore_user_ab ort", in case the user decides to go somewhere else
before your subsequent process finishes.


/Bent

[Chung Leong]

Re: How can i send 'eof' to the client?


S. C. Jeong wrote:[color=blue]
> I want to send 'eof' kind of message after some processes. Die or exit
> cannot be used because there are some more processes to complete, but
> nothing major to users.
>
> <?php
> phpinfo ();
> //i want to finish the process here!!
> //flush () //? doesnt work?
> sleep (10); // mimic of (not)complicate d process
> ?
>
> Help me to solve this problem :)
>
> Calvin J[/color]

Try turning on output buffering and setting the Content-Length header
before sending the contents.

<?

ob_start();
/* ... do stuff ... */
$s = ob_get_clean();
$len = strlen($s);
header("Content-Length: $len");
echo $s;

?>

Might want to set the Connection header to 'closed' as well.