Code:

 

<?php

header("content-type: text/plain");

clearstatcache();

echo "Data from last go:\n";
echo "\tcontent:\t".file_get_contents('test.txt')."\n";
echo "\tfilemtime:\t".strftime("%X",filemtime('test.txt'))."\n";

?>

Code:

 

[root@server01 filemtime]# date +%X > test.txt | php index.php

Code:

 

Data from last go:
content: 04:32:41 PM

filemtime: 16:32:41


Code - test2.php

 

<?php

header("content-type: text/plain");
flush();
clearstatcache();
$c=0;
while(true){
$c++;
if($c==10){
break;
}
clearstatcache();
echo "\tfilemtime:\t".strftime("%X",filemtime('test.txt'))."\n";
sleep(1);
}

?>

Code - test3.php

 

<?php
$fh = fopen('test.txt','a');
$c=0;
while(true){
$c++;
if($c==10){
break;
}
fwrite($fh,'<br />test');
sleep(1);
}
fclose($fh);
?>

Viral.

Jul 24 2009, 03:18 PM

Yeah it seems really useful, except for the fact that's it just used up 200 MB of bandwidth in a couple of hours. I still have no idea why it's doing it though, as far as I know, bandwidth isn't used if nothing is output.