diff --git a/reference/outcontrol/functions/flush.xml b/reference/outcontrol/functions/flush.xml index d1efa23c05..78a27f6b92 100644 --- a/reference/outcontrol/functions/flush.xml +++ b/reference/outcontrol/functions/flush.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + flush @@ -13,15 +13,16 @@ - Flushes the output buffers of PHP and whatever backend PHP is using (CGI, + Flushes the write buffers of PHP and whatever backend PHP is using (CGI, a web server, etc). This effectively tries to push all the output so far to the user's browser. flush has no effect on the buffering scheme of your - web server or the browser on the client side. - Thus you need to call both ob_flush and - flush to flush the output buffers. + web server nor the browser on the client side. And it also doesn't affect + PHP's userspace output buffering mechanism. This means you will have to + call both ob_flush and flush to + flush the ob output buffers. Several servers, especially on Win32, will still buffer the output from