Need help please with a simple ajax function
I'm trying to get this ajax function to work.
Backend.php is just counting to 3 with a delay of 1 second after each echo function. I see the backend's display but only after the entire php file is finished and exits. How can I see each count in "real time"?
Bob
the .html file:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/
TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Collecting Data...</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$.ajax({
url: "backend.php",
cache: false,
success: function(html) {
$(".target").html(html);
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="target"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
</body>
</html>
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backend.php:
<?php
$n = 3;
for($i=0; $i<$n; $i++) {
$str = sprintf("%d / %d", $i+1, $n);
echo $str;
sleep(1);
}
?>