Re: Possible to buffer output to make HTML anchors work?

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:59, Rebecca Donley wrote: > Hi all, > > I am switching from VBScript/ASP to PHP and have run into a problem > with HTML anchors. My page has a list of links generated from a db. > The links reference a second page, which displays multiple records from > the db to include the referenced one. I need that page to load to the > selected record based on the link from the previous page, with the > other records ouputted before and after the selected record. Since the > selected record's location will vary on the page I need to use the html > <a href=name> anchors. The names of these anchors are also generated > from the database. The second page is loading to the top of the page, > regardless of the anchors, which appear correctly in the html source > code. I suspect this is because my include header files are being sent > to the browser before the anchors are generated. > > In ASP I could set the buffer to send the output to the browser all at > once, which would solve this problem (I think) but I can find nothing > similar in PHP. Is there anything? Or is there another way around > this problem? > > Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions. > Rebecca Output control functions may be what you are looking for. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Even a hawk is an eagle among crows.