$page = output of php-parser ???

Michiel · 07-02-2002, 10:02 AM

Hi,

this might seem as an odd question about PHP, but I'm simply asking it because I'm interested in the possibilities of PHP. Okay, here it comes: Is it possible to capture a complete parsed page in a variable. In other words: I want the output of the php parser to be the value of my variable $page.

Example:

snipppet of 'mypage.php?name=Michiel'

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
<?PHP
if (IsSet($name)) print ("Homepage of $name");
else print ("Homepage of anonymous");
?>
</TITLE>

etc. etc.

Now I would like, somehow that the value of my variable $page is gona be:

$page = "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Homepage of Michiel</TITLE> etc. etc."

I hope my question is clear enough

Thanx Michiel

firepages · 07-02-2002, 01:55 PM

not exactly with you but I thnk you mean either this

PHP Code:


			
$yaks=implode('',file('mypage.php?name=Michiel'));

or this ?

PHP Code:


			
if (IsSet($name)) {

$title="Homepage of $name"); 

}else{

$title= "Homepage of anonymous"; 

}



$str="

<HTML> 

<HEAD> 

<TITLE> 

$title

</TITLE> 

</HEAD><BODY> etc etc

";



echo $str;

either way the answer is yes

Michiel · 07-02-2002, 06:12 PM

Hmm,

no this is not exactly what I mean, thanks though for your reply

. I'll try to explain again what is is that I'm looking for:

When you call a php-script in your browser, the php-script is parsed on the server by a php-parser, right? The output of the parser is pure html-code which is displayed by the browser. What I want to do is parse my php-script entirely and then put the output in a variable $page instead of displaying the output in the browser. So then the content of $page would be everything from '<HTML><HEAD> ...... 'til </BODY></HTML>'.

I hope this makes my question a bit more understandable ....

Regards, Michiel

Evlich · 07-04-2002, 04:28 AM

I am wroking on a page as well, and I was looking at this page today. I think that it will help you. It is located at:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/argerich20010125.php3

This page actually talks about compression, but it might help.
I would think that you could just do this:

$yaks=implode('',file('mypage.php?name=Michiel'));
What firepages said, but this might give you a little more to look at. I don't know, but I hope that it helps.

~evlich

mordred · 07-04-2002, 02:42 PM

Michiel, have you tried to open an URL with the file() example above? I mean, like

$yaks=implode('',file('http://www.example.org/mypage.php?name=Michiel'));

That should retrieve the contents of mypage.php, parsed by the PHP engine and assign the value to the $yaks variable.
fopen wrappers must be enabled for URLs though, see the tip at

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

Flamerule · 07-04-2002, 10:24 PM

rather than

PHP Code:


			
$yaks=implode(" ",file('http://www.example.org/mypage.php?name=Michiel'));

I personnaly think it would be better to use

PHP Code:


			
$yaks=implode("\n",file('http://www.example.org/mypage.php?name=Michiel'));

Not much change but if ever you come to print $yaks then the page won't appear on a whole line in the page source.

mordred · 07-04-2002, 11:39 PM

@Flamerule: I thought that was unneccessary, because the manual says:

Quote:

Identical to readfile(), except that file() returns the file in an array. Each element of the array corresponds to a line in the file, with the newline still attached

taken from http://za2.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

Flamerule · 07-05-2002, 07:39 AM

woups

*hides*