flush()

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

刷新输出缓冲

说明

刷新PHP程序的缓冲，而不论PHP执行在何种情况下（CGI ，web服务器等等）。该函数将当前为止程序的所有输出发送到用户的浏览器。

flush()函数不会对服务器或客户端浏览器的缓存模式产生影响。因此，必须同时使用 ob_flush()和flush()函数来刷新输出缓冲。

个别web服务器程序，特别是Win32下的web服务器程序，在发送结果到浏览器之前，仍然会缓存脚本的输出，直到程序结束为止。

有些Apache的模块，比如mod_gzip，可能自己进行输出缓存，这将导致flush()函数产生的结果不会立即被发送到客户端浏览器。

甚至浏览器也会在显示之前，缓存接收到的内容。例如 Netscape 浏览器会在接受到换行或 html 标记的开头之前缓存内容，并且在接受到标记之前，不会显示出整个表格。

一些版本的 Microsoft Internet Explorer 只有当接受到的256个字节以后才开始显示该页面，所以必须发送一些额外的空格来让这些浏览器显示页面内容。

This will show each line at a time with a pause of 2 seconds.
(Tested under IEx and Firefox) 

I would like to point out that there is a function to replace ob_flush and flush. If you set ob_implicit_flush(true); at the top of the page it will automatically flush any echo or print you do in the rest of the script.
Note that you still need a minimum amount of data to come through the browser filter. I would advice using str_pad($text,4096); since this automatically lenghtens the text with spaces to 4 KB which is the minimum limit when using FireFox and linux.
I hope this helps you all out a bit.

Hi all.
Been scratching my head over data NOT flushed to IE (6) even though I tried strpad 4096 chars, all headers OK, TABLE and no TABLE, flush and ob_flush - still a blank page. Tried adding a sleep(1) before flushing - and everything worked as a charm. 
/Mikael

This is what I use to turn off pretty much anything that could cause unwanted output buffering and turn on implicit flush:

If it still fails though, keep in mind that Internet Explorer and Safari have a 1k buffer before incremental rendering kicks in, so you'll want to output some padding as well.

I've spent days trying to figure out why flush didn't work all of a sudden, while it used to work perfectly. Apparently, it was McAfee Spamkiller that caused problems. Disabling it didn't work, I had to completely remove it. Hope this helps someone.

This is an extention of Rusty's comment below: 
After sitting here for hours trying to make IE6 flush data out in the middle of a page (with it working perfectly in Firefox), I finally figured out the problem. IE will not display flushed data (even if it has it) unless the table that contains it is complete.
Every new element you want IE to display must not be in ANY kind of table at all. You must end all your tables.

combining some ideas i was finally able to get a long running script to give me real time feedback on what it was doing. this was a wamp setup with php running as cgi. i'm pretty sure that apache just wasn't sending any of the buffered output because it was trying to be helpful. also trying to be helpful, i hope this example solution helps someone.

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