redirect STDOUT

Anon

In one of my web apps, I show the user a 'receipt' page, and I want to email that same page to the user.
The ability to redirect STDOUT to a variable would be really cool, does anyone know if you can do something like this:

redirect(STDOUT, $var);
?>
<p>Here is some <b>text</b></p>
<?
echo 'Here is more';
redirect(STDOUT);

... and have $var contain "<p>Here is some <b>text</b></p> Here is more"

Anon

I'm not sure about redirecting stdout, but you could possibly accomplish a similar result using sprintf().

Anon

but...do you want to show the message in your page and store that same message in a variable? why don't you create the message in a variable and then you echo this variable?

$var="<p>Here is some <b>text</b></p> Here is more";

echo $var

There is another solution. Answer me if this works for you, otherwise, I post the other solution.

Conogol

Anon

In this case we are talking about an entire page, so to do this you would have to compose the entire page in string assignments, and you lose the nice embedded feature of php.

i.e.
instead of saying

you would have to say
$page = '<table>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>'.$name.'</td>
</tr>
</table>';

...and you would have to do that for the entire page. Creating a string like this also means that is you have includes() you want to use, those will have to be converted as well.

Of course it can be done this way, it would just be much easier of you could redirect SDTOUT. There is a method for doing this in Perl..

Anon

You should take a look at the Output Buffering functions.

ob_start()
ob_get_contents()

Those are probably the ones you'd be interested in.

Anon

wow.. thats it..
thank you thank you thank you
Here is a link from the manual
http://www.phpdev.com/view.phph/4.html