Month: January 2010

Flushing the output buffer doesn’t works in PHP sometimes no matter what you do. I had this code which would never work on my server but would perfectly fine on localhost. This was the code. <?php include(‘common.php’); ini_set(‘output_buffering’,’on’); ini_set(‘zlib.output_compression’, 0); //ini_set(‘implicit_flush’,1); ob_implicit_flush(); for($i=0;$i<10;$i++) { echo $i; echo str_repeat(” “, 500); ob_flush(); flush(); sleep(1); } ?>… Continue reading [SOLVED] Flush(), ob_flush() not working in PHP (Disabling gzip through htaccess)

Well, you might have seen a huge number of variable checks ranging from is_file(), is_array() to is_numeric() and is_int(). While developing a script today I wanted to check for alphabets. I directly used is_alpha() but to my surprise it wasn’t defined. I researched more into the matter and found ctypealpha() does precisely the same thing.… Continue reading Missing alphabet check (is_alpha) in PHP