How to put output of a file in php variable?

[Jamez]

I've been trying to grab the html output of a php file and put it in a variable.

i tried this:

ob_start();
include("test/temp.php");
$data = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

I've tried several variations as well instead of the include, i've tried "read();" "file_get_contents" and several others. Nothing is working.... Can anyone please help. 😕

[bradgrafelman]

Can you access it via a webserver? That'd be the easy way.

[man]fopen[/man] a connection to the PHP script via HTTP, and [man]fread[/man] the data into a variable.

Another way would be to use [man]ob_start[/man] on the PHP script you're trying to read the HTML off, use [man]ob_get_contents[/man] to store the buffer in a vaiable, and then [man]return[/man] the variable in the script, NOT echo/print. Then, look at the [man]include[/man] page on how to store the returned data of a script to a variable (Example 16-10).

[Weedpacket]

I'd expect file_get_contents('http://...') to work, but that's in the absence of any context to the problem that might suggest otherwise.

[bradgrafelman]

Ah, right you are Weed.

If you have PHP >= 4.3.0..... listen to Weed here 😉