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[Masali]

Hi,

I have a script that reads in html-templates, and i want some keywords in the template to be changed into the output of another script. But if I use require() to include the script, the printout to the web browser will be instant, so I would like to redirect the standard output to a variable instead, so I can replace the keywords with the variable and later print it all out to the browser.

Please help, need it urgently!

Best regards

Masali

 

[sleipnir214]

I don't understand.

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[Masali]

I want to run a php-script (1) within another script (2), and i want the output from the script no. 1 sent to a variable.

I was thinking that i could use

require "script1.php";

but first redirect the stdout to a variable instead of the browser window. Or do you have another idea of making this happen?

 

[sleipnir214]

There's a couple of things you could try.

Since most of the newer PHP installations come with a stand-alone executable version of the interpreter, you could invoke the other script as an external application. You'd execute "/path/to/php scriptname.php".

You could also use output buffering.

You could modify the included script's code to be included in a function that will either return the text or print it depending on an input parameter.

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[Masali]

I tried output buffering and that worked perfect! Thanks!

ob_start();
include "script.php";
$ret_str = ob_get_contents(); 
ob_end_clean();