note 97173 added to function.passthru

I'd like to refer about the use of use of passthru as a substitute to include or require which I didn't see before. It helped me to workaround a problem with a script which fatally failed only when included or required. I presume that it had to be with recursive includes because there where memory exhaustion messages that didn't get fixed even when increasing the memory limit with ini_set(). As I had no time to re-code it, the fix of the problem was to get the output of the script via a passthru call. Something like this: <?php # ... # (function stuff) ob_start(); passthru("php myscript.php, $result"); $content_grabbed=ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); if($result=0){ echo '<div>',$content_grabbed,'</div>'; }_ # (more function stuff) # ... ?> I don't know about drawbacks that this method might have. Maybe and increased overhead? Anyway I was happy to circumvent the problem with it. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 190.113.137.38 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.passthru.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/97173 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97173/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97173/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97173/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97173/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97173/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97173/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97173 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/97173 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php