However if I run it on my hosts server, the data is echo-ed to the browser in real time. My code nor the code listed in the first 2 answers works for me. For some reason on my local apache webserver all the data appears in the browser at once, after all 4 sleep()s have been executed (8 seconds).

Note: This function throws an error if the specified number of. Shrapnel wrote while I was running my test. The sleep() function delays execution of the current script for a specified number of seconds. So its something in the middle of your script probably. I think most browsers generate a connection timed out after not receiving any data from the server for 1 minute. I just ran your code above with a sleep(2) between the header and footer and got Page generated in 2.0055 seconds. A basic idea, so : make sure you dont have PHP processes that run for too long - or force them to disconnect as soon as they dont need to access the database anymore. I would like to show a progress bar while the user waits. From the index page the user clicks a button and this page, after 10 seconds or so, shows the final result. This solution also gives the user the option of proceeding to the new page immediately rather than having to wait x number of seconds while their browser displays no information.Įdit: I think it's also worth noting that if you do decide to use the the header() method, you need to make sure your sleep() duration isn't too long. So, you generally end up with many processes in a Sleep state when you have a lot of PHP processes that stay connected, without actually doing anything on the database-side. I have this php page that rungs its script. The advantage of this solution over using the 'Location:' header is that you don't need to pause the script execution, which will appear to the user as if the server is busy or their connection has hung. As annakata points out in the comments, the code above is obscenely dangerous as-is. echo filegetcontents(REQUESTa) > loadpage is effectively acting as a proxy, allowing your javascript to call pages which are not on your own domain. If your browser does not redirect you in 10 seconds, or you do loadpage.php: php sleep but load page

Low-tech solution requiring no Javascript or even PHP:

Php sleep but load page