[Q] How can I keep echo "step 1 done..."; smoothly while it done .

I hope i can deliver my question to you,
I have a small script, it do something like sending emails for a list;

so it is a batch, i wanna echo
step 1 done ... - when step 1 is done
step 2 done ... - when step 2 is done

etc..

not echo
step 1 done
step 2 done
etc..
when all done .
I wanna make it like that we see when installing vista for example.
can anyone help, please ?

thanks...

 

while (/* what what */)
{
    echo 'what';
    @ob_flush();
    @flush();
}

PHP:

 

Thanks, so much

 

It alsways better practice to use ob_start() when output buffering before you flush. Another creative solution is the use of ajax and php to do the stepping business logic.