Re: Standard output (printf) question...

look at the output bufering functions. http://php.ca/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php -- Chris Lee lee@mediawaveonline.com "Paul H. Breslin" <phb@Canadian-Artist.com> wrote in message news:3C22E739.270D8E2@Canadian-Artist.com... > I'm trying to create a function that will generate output that could go to > either a file or to the current browser directly. To do this I have something > like: > > function GenerateOutput($out) > { > fwrite($out, "Some stuff"); > fflush($out); > } > > and to call it I tried: > > $stdout = fopen("php://stdout", "w"); > GenerateOutput($stdout); > > But for some reason nothing shows in the browser when I do this. > > I can't seem to find information about what output stream "printf" is actually > writing to. Do we have access to this stream? > > > Can anyone provide a hint as to why the above doesn't work? > > Thanks. > _________________________________________________________________________ > Paul H. Breslin > http://Canadian-Artist.com > mailto:phb@Canadian-Artist.com