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Anon

Hi,
Is there a way to call the php interpreter on a file, and get the resulting HTML stream? For example, say I have a file which has some html and also some php code...like <body><? echo "hello world"; ?></body> ...Now, I want to get the php-translated version of this file : <body>hello world</body> and save it to a variable which I can use later on. Is this possible? Thanks.

Sriram

Anon

If you compiled a cgi version of PHP you can call PHP from the command line on your script and capture its output. Other than this I don't know of any other way of retrieving PHP parsed output.

Anon

I am not sure what your specific application is, but you can always call the "include()" or "require()" when you need the values echoed to the document...

Probably not what you had in mind though. =)

Anon

Try (untested code):

$data = implode("", file("myfile.php");
eval("\$parsed = \"$data\";");
echo $parsed;

or simply:

exec("/path/to/php -q myfile.php", &$result);
$parsed = implode("", $result);

HTH

Anon

If using PHP4, try:

$parsed = /path/to/php -q myfile.php;

Those are backticks not single quotes. If you do not have php compiled as cgi, just use the lynx -dump <URL> command.

HTH