PHP equivalent of response buffer true?

gorilla1 · 08-07-2002, 01:16 AM

Is there a php equivalent of the ASP: Response.Buffer = true
(which causes all scripts to be executed before anything gets rendered to the page.)

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gorilla1 · 08-07-2002, 02:05 AM

I gather ob_start must be it?

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firepages · 08-07-2002, 12:11 PM

yup - thats it ...

i.e. readfile($file) in PHP outputs the contents of file directly to screen & there is no normal way of manipulating its contents but you can use ob_start() & friends

PHP Code:


			
<?

ob_start();

//can't normally get at the files contents (using readfile())

readfile('yaks.txt');

//so grab the contents of the buffer//

$str = ob_get_contents();

//do something pointless to $str... because we can//

$str=nl2br(strrev($str));

ob_end_clean();

echo $str;

?>