Caching mechanism from PHP to browser

All PHP programmers know that echo "1" is executed in the PHP script, and "1" is displayed in the guest's browser.

However, when we execute the code below, we do not display "2" after "1" for 5 seconds, but wait 5 seconds to display "12" directly.

This involves a few caching mechanisms, for a higher salary, students are very necessary to this caching mechanism to learn well.

Typically, our web application consists of the following elements:

Php->apache-> Browser. In this article, we will use this architecture as an example to explain how the data flows through the "chain".

Looking at the above figure, we finally know why the above will show "12", because Echo ' 1 ' is not loaded with PHP cache, so "1" is still in the PHP cache, not to the browser, wait until the end of the program "12" to go to the browser.

Of course we can also manually refresh the cache

echo ' 1 '; Ob_flush; Writes the PHP cache to the APAHCE cache flush; Write the APAHCE cache to the browser cache sleep (5); echo ' 2 ';

After we change the code to the above, the browser still has to wait 5 seconds to display "12", because "1" has been sent to the browser, but the browser cache is not full, and no rendering, until the end of the program to render "12."

We take the Google browser as an example (cache 1000bytes), through the following code, we can achieve the first display "1", 5 Seconds to display "2"

In this case, we have to mention the "Ob_start" function, the function of which is to open a new PHP cache, but this cache far more than the 4096,php document is described in this cache is large enough. We still use the code to illustrate

On the basis of the original we only added a ob_start, the result has become 5 seconds after the same time display "12". This is because each ob_start in the original cache space to open up a sub-cache space, Ob_flush is the current cache space output to the upper cache space, PHP only a cache space, the upper cache space is Apache cache, when PHP has more than one cache space, Ob_flush cannot write the PHP cache to the Apache cache. We still use the image to understand:

Caching mechanism from PHP to browser