Re: How to take output from an include, and embed it into a variable?

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Rob Gould<gouldimg@mac.com> wrote: > I have an invoice table that is drawn on a number of pages, so I have all > the logic in an include-file like this: > > include "invoicetable_bottom.php"; > > > However, now I'm needing to take the output from that include file and pass > it as an email.  To do that, I need to somehow take the output from this > include file and get it into a variable somehow.  Is there a simple way to > do this? > > Something like:  $emailtcontent = include "invoicetable_bottom.php"? > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Use output buffering and capture: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.outcontrol.php ob_start(); include 'stuff_that_makes_html.php'; $contents = ob_get_clean();