override echo???

[rdrnnr]

I'm working with a publishing tool that has lots of calls to functions that simply echo out content directly to the page. I normally dont do this; i'll instead have the function return the HTML string to the calling routine so that I can echo it out whenever I want.

This tool I'm working with has a lot of templates and I can't go and rewrite all these simple chages to return a value rather than echoing.

Is there a way to override the echo command and get the "echoed" output of a function as a return string??? (probably not but it doesn't hurt to ask! :rolleyes: )

mucho dankee

-rdrnnr

[devinemke]

a little resource intensive but:

ob_start ();
function ();
$output = ob_get_contents ();
ob_end_clean ();

$output now contains whatever function() would have normally echoed. you would have to do somethaing like that around every non-contiguous function call. grouped functions could possible share one common output buffer depending on the logical flow of the script.

[rdrnnr]

NICE!!