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I'm generating a ton of XML that is to be passed to an API as a post variable when a user click on a form button. I also want to be able to show the user the XML before hand.
The code is sorta like the following in structure:
<?php $lots of = "php"; ?> <xml> <morexml> <?php while(){ ?> <somegeneratedxml> <?php } ?> <lastofthexml> <?php ?> <html> <pre> The XML for the user to preview </pre> <form> <input id="xml" value="theXMLagain" /> </form> </html> My XML is being generated with a few while loops and stuff. It then needs to be shown in the two places (the preview and the form value).
My question is. How do I capture the generated XML in a variable or whatever so I only have to generate it once and then just print it out as apposed to generating it inside the preview and then again inside the form value?
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With PHP, there are two basic ways to get output: echo and print . In this tutorial we use echo or print in almost every example. So, this chapter contains a little more info about those two output statements.
If it is turned on then stdout output will still go to the standard output of the console/browser but php://output will go to the buffer until the buffer reaches it's capacity or you manually flush the buffer.
The basic functions for displaying output in PHP are as follows: Print() Function. Echo() Function. Printf() Function.
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