Re: Assigning output of include() to a variable

Hey I did it. A special thanks goes out to Michael Kimsal for giving me the idea of output buffering. Here is the code I used. Hope this helps ob_start(); // Start output bufering include ("$filename"); //$filename is the file you want to include $x = ob_get_contents(); //Set the contents of the output buffer to variable x ob_end_clean(); //Stop output buffering and flush its contents without giving output. If you want it to give out put change this line to ob_end_flush(); Once again thanks to everyone who helped :-) SID At 11:09 PM 9/9/01 -0400, you wrote:

file() probably won't do it, unless you call an http:// file request to your webserver - PHP won't execute other PHP code in another file when pulled in thru file(). What you are looking for is most likely output buffering. Read up on ob_start at php.net/ob_start. Basically turn output buffering on, include() the file, grab the contents from the output buffer, put them into $x, and clear the buffer. There should be an example or 2 at the website. zend.com also had an article on output buffering. -------------------- Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961 On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jason Brooke wrote:

Hi, I've been trying to figure this thing out for 3 hours now. Lets say we

have

a variable $x. Now I need to assign $x with similar output that comes

from

an include function. For anyone who did not understand me --> Instead of the stupid include() function outputing the file contents to the browser I need it to

assign it

to variable x. I am pretty sure inlude() cannot do it but is there any other function similar to include() that will process the file and then assign the

output

to a variable. Thanks in advance SID

there's a stupid function called file() that does that it's in the stupid manual - which also explains the behaviour of include for you as well jason -- 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 -- 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