Showing some result while waiting for socket connection

[ZenMan]

$host = "www.yahoo.com";
$fp = fsockopen($host,80);

//some http-connection stuff

while (!feof($fp))
echo "getting site";
$buf .= fgets($fp,128);
fclose($fp);

echo $buf; 

Problem with this is that it prints "getting site" a million times
untill the socket is finished How can I make it print it only 1 time
on the page? Also, how can I "clear" the page afterwards so just
the result is shown?

[phpman]

that is because you have it in a loop, take it out of that loop and put it before or after the while, my guess is that you need it before the loop. then when done just load a different page.

[ZenMan]

Dont think you quite understood what I wanted to do But I kind
of solved it. Just loaded a page with meta-refresh first. Doesn't
do exactly what I wanted, but better than nothing

[phpman]

umm yes I did, you say it was printing "getting site" a million times, well take it out of the loop and it will stop.

while (!feof($fp))
echo "getting site"; // inside the while loop
$buf .= fgets($fp,128);
fclose($fp);


so then to print it once you do this

echo "getting site";
while (!feof($fp))
$buf .= fgets($fp,128);
fclose($fp);

then it will only print that line and the results, no need to reload a page. hmmm sounds easy to me