How to run shell script with live feedback from PHP?
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How would I execute a shell script from PHP while giving constant/live feedback to the browser?
I understand from the system function documentation:
The system() call also tries to automatically flush the web server's
output buffer after each line of output if PHP is running as a server
module.
I'm not clear on what they mean by running it as a 'server module'. I attempted to run the script in the cgi-bin, but either I'm doing it wrong, or that's not what they mean.
Example PHP code:
<?php
system('/var/lib/script_test.sh');
Example shell code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Start..."
for i in {1..10}
do
echo "$i..."
sleep 1
done
echo "Done."
