Re: your mail

It's done. PHP 4.0 supports output buffering. Using output buffering, you can easily collect your output into a standard PHP variable, and then feed it to a function or a file or whatever you have in mind. Zeev On Sat, 15 May 1999, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if there are any plans to add support to PHP output trapping to > Zend/PHP. > > Output trapping is a way to redefine where PHP output is going. Currently, > all output goes either to the standard output or the Web server request > socket connection. Output trapping would let programmers tell the output to > be processed/filtered by some user defined function. Let me explain what I > mean and its importance. > > Many people develop library code and general purpose classes that generate > HTML that is embedded in the presentation of pages, like for instance: query > results embedded in table columns and form fields embedded in HTML code that > defines how they are layed out. > > I have developed a PHP class that has been frequently requested that > generates forms from a description of the fields. To output the code of the > form the programmer that uses my class has to define the layout HTML code > within each HTML for the form fields is embedded. > > Currently, the programmer has to call methods of my class to define how the > form fields are interleaved in the HTML layout code. It could be made > simpler, if instead of calling a method to define the layout code the > prorgrammer could simply escape from PHP code with ?> and just type HTML > layout code. > > If PHP supported output trapping the the programmer could tell PHP that user > defined function would process PHP output instead of going straight to the > standard output or the Web server request socket connection. This would make > possible what I described: letting programmer define HTML layout code > escaped from PHP code to be processed by classes or library code. > > Any comments or intention to implement such kind of support in future > versions fo PHP/Zend? > > > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net