putting phpinf() data into a variable?

[rosscarlson]

Everyone,

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I've searched and can't find it. I want to add a "Tech Support" link to an app I'm writing, and what I want is to get ALL the data that is in phpinfo, put it into a variable, then post it to a SSL enabled webpage.

I tried the simple:

$content = phpinfo();

but it echos phpinfo data to the screen, which I don't want. I just want the data in the variable so I can post it.

Any ideas? Can this be done?

Thanks,

Ross
http://jinzora.jasbone.com

[bastien]

i think that you might be able to do this by creating a page that just does phpinfo and then using [man]fsockets[/man] to open a connection to the page and stream the data into a variable...

[rosscarlson]

Thanks that worked perfectly! I feel stupid that I didn't think of that!!!

Ross
http://jinzora.jasbone.com

[Weedpacket]

Output buffering with [man]ob_start[/man] and its ilk would also work.