Re: how to assign a parsed file to a variable?

At 08:48 AM 6/27/00 +0800, Vboy wrote:

I got several mails asking if I got any replies/solutions for the following problem that I posted days ago. Regretfully, the answer is no. So I repost it again and see if it can be done by PHP... GOAL: 1) parse an external file with PHP+HTML codes

      2) assign the result string to a variable instead of displaying
         directly on the PHP script

Example follows... Thank you! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: eval(...) not printing on browser, but assigning to a variable Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 11:27:52 +0800 From: Vboy <vboy@bigfoot.com> To: PHP List <php-general@lists.php.net> Dear all, -- test.inc (1 line file)-- <?echo "HELLO";?> -- -- test.php (1 line file)-- $fcontent=file("test.inc"); while ( list($line_num,$line) = each($fcontent) ) { $msg .= $line; } eval("?>$html_msg"); -- It echos "HELLO" on test.php. However, I do not want the string "HELLO" printing on test.php, I want it assigned to avariable instead, so I can use it for other purpose. e.g. as a mail body How do I accomplish that?

Hi Vboy, You should be able to do it a couple of ways. Run the script on the command line: $data = /usr/local/bin/php -q script_name.php; - or - Use fopen and grab the results of the script via the web. $fp = fopen ('http://www.mysite.com/mypage.php3'); while (! feof ($fp))

        $data .= fgets ($fp, 1024);

fclose ($fp); hth, Zak Greant Creative Director Nucleus Information Service Inc. "A camel is a horse designed by a committee." - Alex Issigonis (Designer of the Mini)