note 54159 rejected from function.ob-start by mazzanet

From: Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:58:23 +0000
Subject: note 54159 rejected from function.ob-start by mazzanet
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Note Submitter: patrickSPAMNO at pretendsoftware dot com ---- I couldn't get the following code to work: <?php function ob_callback($buffer) { $buffer .= file_get_contents('template/footer.html'); return $buffer; } ?> After some fiddling I came up with this: <?php $footer_html = file_get_contents('template/footer.html'); function ob_callback($buffer) { global $footer_html; $buffer .= $footer_html; return $buffer; } ?> Not sure why file_get_contents() won't work inside the callback function, perhaps because of some silliness with the function writing directly to the buffer, even though it should be returning a string (which is does in other cases). Even more perplexing: <?php function ob_callback($buffer) { $buffer .= var_export(file_get_contents('template/footer.html'),true); return $buffer; } ?> Returns error: Fatal error: var_export(): Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in c:\pretend\pub_html\_tests\iwantmuscle\funcs.inc.php on line 920 So, it's also impossible for me to examine the return value of file_get_contents() in this case as well. Anyone have any ideas on this? (using 4.3.10 on Apache 1.3.27 offline development server).

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