Re: string as file

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:39:51PM -0700, Jim Lucas wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: >> Does php have a facility similar to python's stringIO? >> What I'm wanting to do is similar to a mail merge. IOW, I know I can >> create an include file like: >> $out = <<<EOT >> This is an example of $var1 and $var2. >> EOT; >> and then after assigning values to $var1 and $var2 include that file. I >> can later use different values for $var1 and $var2 and get a different >> $out with a second include. >> Can I someout "include" a string instead of a file? Or maybe there is >> some completely different way to do what I want. > template.php > <?php > > ob_start(); > echo "Hi, my name is {$first_name} {$last_name}."; > return ob_get_clean(); > > ?> > > > This is two different ways you can do it, bases on your input data array > structure > > test.php > <?php > > $values = array(); > > $values[] = array('first_name' => 'Jim','last_name' => > 'Lucas'); > $values[] = array('first_name' => 'James','last_name' => > 'Lucas'); > $values[] = array('first_name' => 'Jimmy','last_name' => > 'Lucas'); > > foreach ($values AS $row) { > extract($row); > echo include 'template.php'; > } > > $values = array(); > > $values[] = array('Jim','Lucas'); > $values[] = array('James','Lucas'); > $values[] = array('Jimmy','Lucas'); > > list($first_name, $last_name) = current($values); > do { > echo include 'template.php'; > } while (list($first_name, $last_name) = next($values)); > ?> You have misunderstood. You are still putting the template in an external file. I want it in the main file. I don't want to maintain two different files. -- "It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better." -- Friedrich Hayek Rick Pasotto rick@niof.net http://www.niof.net