Re: Print inside a variable

Thank you, I hope this will work, if it does, then you have been incredibly helpful, if it doesn't work, I still applaud you for trying to help me and increse my knowledge of php so that if I do run into a problem where I need somthing like that, I will know what to do. "Jin Yong Wu" <jinyong.wu@CHN.XEROX.com> wrote in message news:76130D07EA63B945B35125D7BCDEAE5F077CAA5B@chnshamspf01.chn.xerox.com... > > I am not sure whether you want to get the executing result of such PHP > script into the variable $message or not ??? > > If so, you can use output buffer. > <?php > ob_start(); > > /* the following is the snippet you gave */ > if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"])) { > if (count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]) > 0) { > .......... > print ("<b>There are no articles in this feed.</b>"); > } > } > > $message = ob_get_contents(); > ?> > > Regards, > Yong from Xerox, China > 2005/5/8 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maxwell Brodie [mailto:max.b@shaw.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:35 AM > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Print inside a variable > > > Hello, > > I believe my problem is that I have to use the print funtion inside a > variable, and I have no clue how to do that. For example, I need to get > this: > > if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"])) { > if (count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]) > 0) { > for($i = 0;$i < count($rss_channel["ITEMS"]);$i++) { > if (isset($rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["LINK"])) { > print ("\n<div class=\"itemtitle\"><a href=\"" . > $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["LINK"] . "\">" . > $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"] . "</a></div>"); > } else { > print ("\n<div class=\"itemtitle\">" . > $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["TITLE"] > > . "</div>"); > } > print ("<div class=\"itemdescription\">" . > $rss_channel["ITEMS"][$i]["DESCRIPTION"] . "</div><br > />"); } > } else { > print ("<b>There are no articles in this feed.</b>"); > } > } > > Into variable "$message=" > > Any help would be appriciated MUCH! > > Thank you! > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php