Have you checked your error log to see if there an error being generated that you can't see? Cheers, Rob. 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 -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
