You mean like this ?
<?
$file string = file_get_contents(urlencode($file_path));
<http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php>
$result = eval($file_string);
?>
Well I see a few problems with this. One is that scope is not lexical.
In other words if $foo exists somewhere in the script and $foo also
exists in $file_string then $foo will retain the value it was set to in
$file_string. That could lead to some debugging hell. Also, you would
have to collect the output and manually return it which means you would
have to keep an output cache which means you could only use scripts that
cached output and returned them explicitly. However, the flip side is
you could have a buffer declared in the local scope that collects the
output of $file_string and then put that in the message, but that is not
the same as:
$foo = include $bar; # this is, of course, impossible
Geert Tapperwijn wrote:
Can't you just use the eval <http://nl2.php.net/eval> function, and
parse the code from the include file in it?
.. or is there something I'm missing here?
2009/9/25 Carl Furst <cfurst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:cfurst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Jim Lucas wrote:
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 07:36 -0700, Jim Lucas wrote:
Mert Oztekin wrote:
Output buffering will do it.
Also I am not sure but did you try retrieving
content with fopen() ?
Something like
$file = 'invoicetable_bottom.php';
fopen("http://yoursite.com/folder/$file","r";);
http://tr.php.net/function.fopen
worth trying. Easier than output buffering
This would not work. fopen would open the file for
read. What you would be
reading is the actual source of the document. Not the
data the script would
output when ran.
The ob_* functions are the only way that I know of to
do what you are asking
-----Original Message-----
From: Puiu Hrenciuc [mailto:hpuiu@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:hpuiu@xxxxxxxxx>]
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:36 PM
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How to take output from an
include, and embed it into a variable?
Hi,
The simplest way (actually the single way I know
:) ) would be to
capture the output using output buffering
functions, something like this:
// start output buffering
ob_start();
// include the file that generates the HTML (or
whatever content)
include "....";
// get output buffer content
$output=ob_get_contents();
// clean output buffer and stop buffering
ob_end_clean();
// the content generated in the included file is
now in $output variable
// use it as you consider fit
.........
Regards,
Puiu
Rob Gould 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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That's just crazy talk. If you use fopen on a web URL,
then it will
always return the output the script generates. That's how
http works!
Sorry, my bad. Ash is correct, the method that is suggested
will work. But you
will need to enable options in your php.ini that are not on by
default for
security reasons, plus as Ben points out, you will need to
filter out the scruff
that is generated to capture just the data output from your
include.
Mind you that all of this also requires that the file that you
are including is
accessible via the web. It could be in a folder that is not
web accessible.
Sorry for the initial confusion!
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Do you have php configured to compile files? Why not just backtick
the php -f command??
<?
$cmd = *escapeshellcmd*("/full/path/to/php -f $file");
$email_output = `$cmd`;
# do something with $email_output
?>
Seems easier than a whole http call.. can be risky if the $file
variable can be set by user input (big no no), but other than
that.. seeems the simplest.
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