RE: [Phplib-users] tail -f

[Rob H. <rob...@ws...>]

Note with the either method, the browser will time out at some point.  In
fact, with any method.  It may make more sense to do a tail -50 or something
with a refresh.

Rob Hutton
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: php...@li...
> [mailto:php...@li...]On Behalf Of Frank Bax
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 3:49 PM
> To: php...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Phplib-users] tail -f
>
>
> At 07:54 AM 12/17/02, Poduje, Miguel (LanInfo) wrote:
> >How can i do a "tail -f" in php?
> >I need to read a file in online mode.
> >
> >regards
>
>
> To simply dump the contents of file out to webpage, then try:
>          system('tail -f /path/to/file');
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php
>
> or if you are looking to be able to process the data first yourself, then
> try popen():
>          http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.popen.php
>