Re: output buffering in CLI script.

Casey wrote:

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:

hi there, I can't seem to manage to buffer output (of an included file) in a CLI script, the following does not work:

                     // buffer output so we can avoid the shebang line being output (and strip it from the output we log)
                     $oldIFvalue = ini_set('implicit_flush', false);
                     ob_start();

                     if (!@include $script) {
                         ob_end_clean();
                     } else {
                         $output = explode("\n", ob_get_clean());
                         if ($output[0] && preg_match('%^#!\/%', $output[0]))
                             unset($output[0]);
                     }

                     ini_set('implicit_flush', $oldIFvalue);

the reason I'm wanting to do this is, primarily, in order to stop the shebang line that *may* be present in the included script from being output to stdout.

I use Windows, so I don't need the shebang line. But if I'm correct and the shebang line is: #!/usr/bin/php , shouldn't it be considered a comment, because of the "#"?

nope, because it comes before the <?php in the file If it were after the <?php then it would be considered a comment. Jim