By zigma on

Wondering if some special configuration is requred for site to start displaying contents as it builds instead of waiting for entire page to be built.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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handelaar’s picture

handelaar commented

Theme issue.

That's something browsers do with table-based layouts. Shouldn't happen with a decent CSS-based theme.

dman’s picture

dman commented

And some of the decent CSS themes work it so the content comes first in document order, blocks come last.
Seeing as the page is served in burst mode, that's only a marginal advantage I guess, but it'd make a diff on low bandwidth.

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Michael M’s picture

Michael M commented

There are many things that can change during a page (i.e. The title can change). We can't predict what/when will change.

The page is done loading only when the line that echos all the output is encountered.

Plus, it is technically more efficient to have one echo (echo 'All of your output';) instead of multiple echos.

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James Andres’s picture

James Andres commented

There's also output buffering in php, which Drupal doesn't really take advantage (disadvantage? ;-) of.

This is a mostly useless comment unless you are writing a specific module in which you can actually have control over this. Ignore me if this doesn't help.

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kbahey commented

Drupal 4.7 has some output buffering, if you are using phptemplate.

Check the _phptemplate_render() function in the phptemplate engine.

There is some buffering in the caching code as well.
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