Capturing script output

I've got somewhat of a methodology question here. I've got a YaBBSE message board <http://yabbse.org> that I'm trying to integrate into my site layout. On a regular page on my site, I call a page script that defines a body() function and some variables, then calls template.php to write the page. What I need to do here is somehow capture the output of the message board script (index.original.php) and put it into the body() of index.php. I've tried two things: 1. $output = file_get_contents($url); where $url = 'http://server.com/forum/index.original.php?'$SERVER_[QUERY_STRING]; or something similar The problem here is that index.original.php relies on POST data, so I can't tell it everything it needs to know through the query string. 2. ob_start(); require "/dir1/dir2/forum/index.original.php"; $output = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); The problem with this is that index.original.php contain calls to ob_end_flush() and the like, which messes up my output buffering. The effect is such that ob_start(); require "/dir1/dir2/forum/index.original.php"; ob_end_clean(); produces output. So I'm stuck. I want to be able to capture the output of the forum script to include it in my template, but I want to keep it original, so I don't have to maintain a diff against the original source. Can anyone offer some advice as to what I should do here? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail [jjk3@msstate.edu]