I am writing a command line php script which does some output to the console window, its all look good only issues is when i type
php myfilename.php -....
in the console window, ONLY AFTER its fully executed it outputs the result to the window ..
Wht i want is to do this on the fly like below
customer id: 1223 skipped.
customer id: 22233 added..
...etc
another question is adding \n\r to the printf functions didn't go to a new line ...
any idea on these issues..
This is probably due to output buffering. You can use ob_flush() to flush the buffer manually when needed.
As for your second issue, the correct sequence for newline on Microsoft Windows is "\r\n", not the other way around.
First, the Windows-style end-of-line marker is \r\n, not \n\r. Not many systems ever used \n\r, but they are rare enough that you can forget about them now.
Second, chances are good the output is being block buffered -- you can either use ob_implicit_flush(1) to automatically insert a flush() command after every output command. Or, you could call flush() manually, when you need to flush output.
About the End-Of-Line marker, always use PHP predefined constant PHP_EOL; it is correctly set based on your platform, so you do not have to worry is it right or wrong.
For the [Enter] issue, it could be the output buffering is on. Add this simple test in your script:
function test()
{
$state = array(' added', ' skipped');
for ($i = 0; $i < 50; $i++)
{
echo 'customer id: ' . rand(1, 1000) . $state[rand(0, 1)] . PHP_EOL;
usleep(50000); // slow it a bit to see the line by line output
}
}
// without ob -------------------------------------------
$start = microtime(true);
test();
echo 'Finished in ' . round(microtime(true) - $start, 2) . PHP_EOL . str_repeat('-', 78) . PHP_EOL;
sleep(1);
// with ob ----------------------------------------------
$start = microtime(true);
ob_start(); // if called somewhere at the top in your script
// some previous code...
echo 'Line 1'.PHP_EOL.'Line 2'.PHP_EOL.uniqid().PHP_EOL;
// flush the buffer and stop ob
// this will echo whatever is in the output buffer!
//ob_end_flush();
// or, store the current buffer content in a variable and use it later
$output = ob_get_clean();
test();
echo $output;
echo 'Finished in ' . round(microtime(true) - $start, 2) . PHP_EOL . str_repeat('-', 78) . PHP_EOL;
// you could start buffering again, if needed
ob_start();
For output control functions see http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php. They are very powerful tools.
Hope it helps. Cheers!
