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Request #23766 include/require that return
Submitted: 2003-05-22 20:39 UTC Modified: 2003-05-22 20:42 UTC
From: ericn at ionws dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 4.3.1 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-05-22 20:39 UTC] ericn at ionws dot com 
Currently (obviously), include(_once) and require(_once) process the php file that they are called with and output of that file is sent.  However, it would be useful to store an included file's output in a variable instead of sending it to the user.  For example:

include.php:
<?php echo "<b>Bold Text</b>"; ?>

include("include.php");
would send <b>Bold Text</b> to the user, however, the hypothetical function (or construct) includeto would store all of include.php's output in a variable.  So:

$output = includeto("include.php");

$output would contain "<b>Bold Text</b>"

If there is already a way to accomplish this, I apologise, but could not find one.

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 [2003-05-22 20:42 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
ob_start()
include 'foo.php';
$foo = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
 
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