PHP output to command line

Question

I start my script from command line and it outputs things as they happen but a week ago it stopped outputing and now outputs everything when script finishes. I have ob_start() but as I know this does not effect command line output.

Answer 1

It'd be very helpful if you could post your script here, at least the relevant parts, but things I'd test are:

• Did you turn on buffering?
• Are you running the process in something like a nohup or something else that may be buffering it?
• Did you change any other buffering settings?

Outputting only at the end of the script seems a buffering problem.

Answer 2

You need to remove ob_start()... try this code on the command line, and it will print the text all at once:

<?
ob_start();
echo "test\n";
sleep(10);
echo "buffer\n";
?>