help on output buffering and file writing?

[Wally-o]

I want to write to file exactly what is displayed on screen (text), so I thought I could use output buffering and then flush the contents to a file.
I start with:

$filename = "site\\New_Thread_Requested.php";
$fp = fopen ($filename, "r+");
ob_start();
//body of code goes here, some echo statements scattered around
fflush($fp);
ob_end_flush();

This shows on screen what I want, but the file is not changed at all.
Can anyone tell me why?

Thanks,

Wally-o

[ahundiak]

You almost have it.
Keep the ob_start() at the top of your file.

Then at the end do something like:
$str = ob_get_contents();
$file = fopen($filename,'w');
fputs($file,$str);
fclose($file);

ob_end_flush();

[Wally-o]

Great, this outputs all of my output buffer to the file, but its not exactly what I wanted. Is there a way to only output the text that will be diplayed to the file? What I mean is, I changed all of my < signs to &lt, spaces to &nbsp; etc. Is can I output to the file only what is to be displayed (or do I have to re-work my whole script?) 🙁

thanks again for your help

Wally-o

[ahundiak]

I am not sure what you are trying to do.

$str = strip_tags(ob_get_contents());

Will strip out all of the html tags.

[Wally-o]

perfect! thanks!