Re: Capturing Eval'd things into a variable...

Roy, have a look at the online manual for the Output Buffering functions. they may be what youre after ... > Are there any planned functions for this type of thing in PHP?! > > I once used a language which had one of the only, and yet most well planned > ways of accomplishing this type of thing... > > All you had to do was put what you wanted captured into the default variable > in the middle of two functions, and voila! > > such as: > > StartCapture(); > PHP CODE > EndCapture(); > > Perl is also a little bit more helpful in thsi aspect, it allows us to at > least use EVAL as a function (ruterns data)... > > The use of EVAL is only for running user-given code? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jason Brooke [mailto:jason@qgl.org] > > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 1:21 AM > > To: Joe Conway; Roy Nasser; Php (E-mail) > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Capturing Eval'd things into a variable... > > > > > > > > Or just $variable = implode('', > > > > file("http://www.yourhost.com/path/to/tagetpage.php")); > > > > jason > > > > > > > I'm not sure I completely understand what you're trying to > > accomplish, but > > > it sounds like you want the html output of a php page captured to a > > > variable. Is that correct? > > > > > > Assuming it is, why not use fsockopen and make an http > > request for the > > page > > > directly. There are examples in the list archives which > > give examples, but > > > it would be something like (untested): > > > > > > > > > <?PHP > > > $tgt = "/path/to/targetpage.php"; > > > $host = "http://www.yourhost.com; > > > $header = "GET " . $tgt . " HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"; > > > $fp = fsockopen($host, 80, &$err_num, &$err_msg, 30); > > > if ($fp) { > > > // Send everything > > > fputs($fp, $header); > > > > > > // Get the response > > > while (!feof($fp)) { > > > $response = fgets($fp, 128); > > > $buf .= $response; > > > } > > > echo $buf; > > > } > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >