Printing php script output to file [closed]

Question

Is there a native function or set of functions in PHP that will allow me to echo and print php file output into file.

For example code will generate HTML DOM that needs to be put into .html file and then displayed as static page.

Answer 1

The easiest method would be to create a string of your HTML data and use the file_put_contents() function.

$htmlStr = '<div>Foobar</div>';
file_put_contents($fileName, $htmlStr);

To create this string, you'll want to capture all outputted data. For that you'll need to use the ob_start and ob_end_clean output control functions:

// Turn on output buffering
ob_start();
echo "<div>";
echo "Foobar";
echo "</div>";

//  Return the contents of the output buffer
$htmlStr = ob_get_contents();
// Clean (erase) the output buffer and turn off output buffering
ob_end_clean(); 
// Write final string to file
file_put_contents($fileName, $htmlStr);

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Reference -

• ob_start()
• ob_get_contents()
• ob_end_clean()

• file_put_contents()

• PHP output control documentation

Answer 2

file_put_contents($filename, $data)

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php