Capturing HTML generated by PHP

Anon

Hi there,

After querying the database, PHP generates HTML code and returns it to the browser. Is there a way through which we can capture this generated code in a text file before it reaches the browser.

Regards
Sam

Anon

Assign it to a variable first. Then save that variable to a file, then echo out the variable to a browser...

---John Holmes...

Anon

Hi,

How can we assign the output of a php file into a variable?

Regards

Anon

It's already in a variable when you read it from the database, right? Then, open a file for writing, and write that variable.

Look at fopen(), fputs(), etc...

http://www.php.net/manual/ref.filesystem.php

---John Holmes...

Anon

Hi,

Perhaps you did not get my question. The following code:

will generate the following html file:

Can i capture the resulting html from this .php3 file into a seperate file instead of sending it to the browser?

Regards

Anon

You have to assign everything to a variable.

<?
$page = "\n";
$page .= "<body>\n";
$page .= "<select name=$select_name>\n";
$page .= "<option value=$value_1>$value_1</option>\n";
$page .= "<option value=$value_2>$value_2</option>\n";
$page .= "</select>\n";
$page .= "</body>\n";
$page .= "";

$fp = fopen("yourfile.html");
fputs($page);

echo $page;
?>

Something like that. I didn't say it was an easy solution, but it's a solution. The file area probably isn't right, it's just an example, I can't remember the syntax right now.

---John Holmes...