PHP Script to variable

The following I found on a Usenet post on how to EASILY parse a PHP script’s output to a variable using output buffering:

"Daniel Loose" <nore...@web.de> kirjoitti viestissä:430cb793.9399...@news.cs.tu-berlin.de...
> Hello,
> I have this strange including problem:
> I want to read a piece of HTML, residing in some file, into a > variable, not echo it out. So far so easy - but now the HTML contains > a line of PHP. And I wish not to get the PHP code into my variable but > the parsed result, just like if the variable was a client ;-). I wish > to keep the nice ?> ...<? HTML area (with highlighting in my editor), > and therefore include etc. don't help because they would echo it out. > heredoc also doesnt help (if this may come up to your mind).
> Is there anything I can do...?!! The problem sounds so simple... the > more for such a great tool like PHP ... but... ?!!

Sounds like you could use buffering.

ob_start(); // Start output buffering.
// Instead of outputting anything, the output is now stored in a buffer.
include('yourfile.php');
// There, now the file has been included and php parsed.
// It isn't output, it goes into the buffer.
$yourfile = ob_get_clean();
// Now we read everything that has been buffered... And stops buffering.
?>



Result: the file you included has been parsed by the php engine and stored inside $yourfil, and nothing was output. Sounds like goal achieved.
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