Re: How to take output from an include, and embed it into a variable?

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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Rob Gould<gouldimg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have an invoice table that is drawn on a number of pages, so I have all
> the logic in an include-file like this:
>
> include "invoicetable_bottom.php";
>
>
> However, now I'm needing to take the output from that include file and pass
> it as an email.  To do that, I need to somehow take the output from this
> include file and get it into a variable somehow.  Is there a simple way to
> do this?
>
> Something like:  $emailtcontent = include "invoicetable_bottom.php"?
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Use output buffering and capture:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.outcontrol.php

ob_start();
include 'stuff_that_makes_html.php';
$contents = ob_get_clean();

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