Re: exit and ob_*

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On 10/12/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Have you checked your error log to see if there an error being generated
> that you can't see?
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.


Yes, no unusual errors. The thing is... this wasn't an issue when I was
developing on a Suse box running apache. Recently, I moved development over
to Win 2k3 running IIS6. Since then, several issues have cropped up. =/
Think this could be IIS-related?

~Philip


On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 14:03 -0500, Philip Thompson wrote:
> > Hi. This is weird. Here's my structure. I have an index.php file that
> just
> > includes the content depending on what page the user is on. So, because
> of
> > potential redirection from those sub-pages, I call ob_start() before any
> > output (in index.php). I'm doing some testing and I'm wanting to see
> what
> > information's in a variable, etc. So, I display the variable contents
> and
> > call 'exit' so that the page doesn't continue and get redirected
> elsewhere.
> > However, when I call 'exit' on one of these sub-pages, I get no output
> from
> > that sub-page.
> >
> > During testing, I took out the redirection and commented the exit line.
> The
> > output displayed. Before commenting the exit function call, I called
> > ob_clean to see if it had something to do with there being content in
> the
> > buffer - the content of the sub-page showed WITH the exit. Why would no
> > information show when calling exit(), even if ob_start had been called?
> I've
> > never had to deal with this before.
> >
> > [examples]
> > // This is content from a sub-page called from index.php
> >
> > [example code: does not work]
> > echo 'hi';
> > exit;
> > // 'hi' does NOT display
> > ...
> >
> > [example code: does work]
> > ob_clean();
> > echo 'hi';
> > exit;
> > // 'hi' DOES display
> > ...
> >
> > [/examples]
> >
> > I suppose this isn't a big deal during production, but during testing
> it's
> > really frustrating. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why 'exit' is
> > functioning (no pun intended) this way? Note: I do want what's currently
> in
> > the buffer to be sent to the browser, so I don't want to have to call
> > ob_clean. Any thoughts?
> >
> > Another person (*francois at bonzon dot com) *mentions this on the PHP
> exit
> > page <http://www.php.net/exit>, but I'm still not sure why it happens.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > ~Philip
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