PHP 4.0 Bug #8282: Is there a function for this?

From: cnewbill@onewest.net Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Is there a function for this? I guess this is more of a hack than anything, but I really needed eval()'s code NOT to be displayed right away. So I used ob_start(), ob_get_contents(), and ob_end_clean(). <?php $stuff = "Hello, "; ob_start(); // start buffer eval("print 'World!';"); // execute code $retval = ob_get_contents(); // return executed code ob_end_clean(); // delete the buffer print $stuff.$retval; ?> This would print "Hello, World!" instead of "World!Hello, ". Is there a function to do this already? Thanks, Chris -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8282&edit=1