skl99999

Hello, I am an absolute PHP newbie, and I have something which is probably a very stupid question. Nevertheless, I am stuck, despite Google and reading the docs. Here a very cut down example code: <?php ob_start(); echo "123\n"; $body = ob_get_flush(); echo "body = ".$body; ?> I would have expected the output to be body = 123 It actually is 123 body=123 ie ob_start does indeed buffer the output, but it does not prevent if from getting through. This happens both on my Mac with 5.3.10, and on my server where I dont know the PHP version (...newbie...) Any help would be appreciated!