Parsing PHP and placing it into a file

[Anon]

Hi

I'm want to dump out some evaluated php into a file.

the code I have so far is:

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$lev = "../";
$index_page = $front_end_path . "/index.php";
$build_index = fopen($index_page,"w");

fputs($build_index,top_code($lev));

this is my problem area

fputs($build_index,eval(show_categories()));

fputs($build_index,bottom_code());

fclose($build_index);

where top_code() simply returns a string, likewise bottom_code()

now the problem I have is that the eval() function, echo's to the screen and places nothing in the file

I've tried $string = eval(my_funtion());

and I've also played with readfile()

all attempts result in the code echoing to stdout

Now I know that I could edit the function to return a string and pass it that way, but I use the function elsewhere for normal page serving, it's just in this case I want to output static HTML to the file

in short, how do I eval(a_function()) and pop it to my file?

tia

Bealers
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[Anon]

If the function you are trying to capture outputs html or text to stdout, the only way (I know of) to capture that to put in your file is to control output buffering:

<?php

// write beginning stuff...

// turn on buffering
ob_start;

// execute your function
some_function();

// put the results of the function in a variable
$results = ob_get_contents();

// clear the buffer so it doesn't output to stdin
ob_end_clean();

// write it to the file and do the rest of your program :-)

?>

-- Rich Rijnders
-- Irvine, CA US