I want 1 PHP file to "run" (include?) another PHP file on the same server, and access its echo'ed output as a string.
How do i do this in PHP? Any inbuilt functions to do this?
Or any better way of executing another PHP file and getting its output?
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You can use PHP's output buffering to accomplish this:
ob_start(); // begin collecting output
include 'myfile.php';
$result = ob_get_clean(); // retrieve output from myfile.php, stop buffering
$result will then contain the text.
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Wieczo
I'd also answer with
ob_start(), you didn'tYou can't include a PHP script that is on an external website/server into your local script - unless you enable allow_url_include on your php.ini (if you have access to it)
Instead, you can let that website/server render the page and get the resulting HTML output on your local script by doing this:
$result = file_get_contents('http://127.0.0.1/myfile.php');
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Dina
it can be a good answer when we have two environments and in some how we need one of them provide information/service for the other. the url may be better to be configurable :) Thanks Typewar