Re: Recursive PHP tag resolution

On Saturday 06 October 2001 09:34, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Isn't that just an eval() ? > > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, John Gunther (Bucks vs Bytes Inc) wrote: > > I've used recursive text expansion to great advantage in many > > contexts over the years, and I'd like to ask if there's any way to > > make this happen in PHP. Recursive token resolution (RTR) can greatly > > simplify programming logic. With RTR, text generated by, for example, > > a PHP echo statement, would in turn be processed by PHP as though it > > were there from the outset. If that newly generated text contained > > PHP tags and code, their evaluation would affect the resulting page. > > Here's a trivial example: I think he rather means something like automatic output buffering. John: http://php.net/ob_start -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://lgdc.sunsite.dk/) I saw God --------- and she was black.