Parse PHP, capture output and use as string??

[petethebloke@googlemail.com]

I'm not sure what to search the web for, so I wonder if someone here
can help me?

I have a website that uses many individual php pages. I'd like to
simplify design updates by using these scripts as includes, but I'm
trying to avoid having loads of:

$output_string. ="<tr><td>bl ah blah".$some_var iable;
$output_string. ="blah blah</td></tr>";

You know the kinda thing.

Is there a way of parsing the script in the php processor and then
capturing the string created and dropping it into my templating script?

Thanks

Pete

[petethebloke@googlemail.com]

Re: Parse PHP, capture output and use as string??

I think I've answered my own question.

//at the start of the page I put....
ob_start();

//and at the end I put......
$output_string= ob_get_contents ();
ob_end_clean();

Seems to work, but if you know better then please say so.

Pete

[B.r.K.o.N.j.A]

Re: Parse PHP, capture output and use as string??

petethebloke@go oglemail.com wrote:

I think I've answered my own question.
>
//at the start of the page I put....
ob_start();
>
//and at the end I put......
$output_string= ob_get_contents ();
ob_end_clean();
>
Seems to work, but if you know better then please say so.
>
Pete
>

That should be ok, I'm using it as a base for my templating engine and I
had no problems so far.

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