Closing socket to client and continuing script execution

[Onetoomanysodas]

I am developing some AJAX apps and I need to close the socket connection with the client so the browser will execute the server response without waiting for the script to complete it's execution.

Here's what I want:
<?php
$bar = $_POST['foo'];
echo "alert('You said '".$bar."')";

// close connection with client so browser evaluates server response

someFunctionThatTakesALongTime();
?>


Any help would be most appreciated.

[Mwnciau]

Use flush(); to force anything echoed so far in the script to be outputted