Reading flushed messages from a running PHP script

Question

I have a PHP script that keeps running in the background endlessly. It also keeps flush()ing debug messages. Is there a way to display those flushed messages within another HTML page?

Answer 1

Redirect the output from the background script to some file, and display that file in the HTML page using readfile() or similar? If you're printing to stdout from the background script, it's going somewhere. Maybe somewhere useful (a file), maybe somewhere useless (your terminal, or /dev/null).