RE: [Phplib-users] tail -f

[Frank B. <fb...@sy...>]

Oops.  I forgot to consider what -f does - sorry.  The refresh seems like 
the way to go and can be automated with:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT=900;URL="...whatever...">

The number is seconds to wait until refresh.

Frank


At 06:21 PM 12/17/02, Rob Hutton wrote:

>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.
>
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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
> >