I made a website, I probably didn't do it like I should have, but I was new to PHP at the time. So in order to save me lots of frustration of trying to re-write a script to display photos on my site, I need to run a *.php file, and make the output if it go into a var called "$html". I know it might sound strange, but that's what I need.
From inside index.php, I include photos.php; In photos.php, I need to declare $html with the output of a script called photos_page.php;
For example:
$html = parse_my_script("../photos_page.php");
Thank you
Answer: To do that, you can use PHP's Output buffering/control. Here's some simple function that gets script output and returns it:
Code:
Things used:
ob_start()
ob_get_clean()
is_readable()
function getScriptOutput($path, $print = FALSE)
{
ob_start();
if( is_readable($path) && $path )
{
include $path;
}
else
{
return FALSE;
}
if( $print == FALSE )
return ob_get_clean();
else
echo ob_get_clean();
}
Usage:
$path = '../photos_page.php';
$html = getScriptOutput($path);
if( $html === FALSE)
{
# Action when fails
}
else
{
echo $html;
}
You'll want to try file_get_contents
$html = file_get_contents("http://www.yourwebsite.com/pages/photos_page.php");
//this will not work since it won't run through web server
//$html = file_get_contents("../photos_page.php");
This should do the trick:
ob_start();
require('../photos_page.php');
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
You can use output buffering. This will place all output, that would normally be sent to the client, into a buffer which you can then retrieve:
ob_start();
include '../photos_page.php';
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
If you wish, you can place this functionality into a function to have it work as you described:
function parse_my_script($path)
{
ob_start();
include $path;
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $html;
}
This, of course, assumes that your included file doesn't require the use of global variables.
For more information, check out all the output control functions:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php
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