resetting browser?

[The Plankmeister]

Hi...

I'm getting to grips with custom error handling, and am wondering if it is
possible to somehow reset all the content already sent to the browser, and
send some new stuff in its place.

For example, if I'm looping through a database, and I've already written 10
records to the browser, and then an error occurs, is it possible to send a
command to the browser that makes it drop everything it's received thus far,
and then just have it print the output of my custom error handling function
instead? I'm guessing not, because I think only headers can do such things,
and they've already been sent, but it's worth asking!

P.
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[Kevin Thorpe]

The Plankmeister wrote:

Hi...

I'm getting to grips with custom error handling, and am wondering if it is
possible to somehow reset all the content already sent to the browser, and
send some new stuff in its place.

For example, if I'm looping through a database, and I've already written 10
records to the browser, and then an error occurs, is it possible to send a
command to the browser that makes it drop everything it's received thus far,
and then just have it print the output of my custom error handling function
instead? I'm guessing not, because I think only headers can do such things,
and they've already been sent, but it's worth asking!

Turn output buffering on. All output goes in the buffer and is output
when your script terminates. You can clear it if you wish before then.
It can hog memory on the server though if there's a lot of output.

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php

[Matthew Vickers]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:39:21 +0200
"The Plankmeister" <plankmeister_NO_@_SPAM_hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi...

I'm getting to grips with custom error handling, and am wondering if
it is possible to somehow reset all the content already sent to the
browser, and send some new stuff in its place.

<snip>

Not quite "resetting" the browser, but an option:

You may want to try somesort of javascript function.

<?
$error_page = "http://blah.com/error.php";
if($error)
{
print "<script language='JavaScript' type='text/JavaScript'>";
print "<!--\n";
print "window.location =\"$error_page\"";
print "//--></script>";
}
?>
Matt
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[Tony Marston]

"The Plankmeister" <plankmeister_NO_@_SPAM_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3f***********************@dread15.news.tele. dk>...

Hi...

I'm getting to grips with custom error handling, and am wondering if it is
possible to somehow reset all the content already sent to the browser, and
send some new stuff in its place.

For example, if I'm looping through a database, and I've already written 10
records to the browser, and then an error occurs, is it possible to send a
command to the browser that makes it drop everything it's received thus far,
and then just have it print the output of my custom error handling function
instead? I'm guessing not, because I think only headers can do such things,
and they've already been sent, but it's worth asking!

P.

Your idea of how PHP (or any other language for that matter)
constructs HTML pages and sends them to the client's browser is
entirely wrong. Your PHP script may construct the web page in stages,
but it is only when it is complete that it is sent to the browser.
Just because your code has finished constructing a bit of HTML does
NOT mean that it is already being displayed on the client's device.

You do NOT write directly to the browser, you write to an output file.
It is only when the file is closed that it is sent to the browser.

Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net/