save all page output to a string.

[drifter]

I want to save the output of a page to a DB or file or something. Is there a way to return the complete output of a page up to a point - including all error messages - to a string. That I can then work with.

Thanks
Scott

[Orio]

Are you looking for something like [url=http://php.net/file-get-contents]file_get_contents()[/url]? (you can use a URL in it to get the output)

Orio.

[craygo]

sure instead of echoing out your stuff, store it in a variable

example:
instead of
[code]echo "<td>some date here</td>";[/code]

use
[code]
$html = "";
$html .= "<td>some data here</td>\n";[/code]

So everytime you want to store date in the $html you cal it as $html .=

then if you want to same it you can just write it to a file or store it by calling $html

Ray

[drifter]

Well I found this -

$output=ob_get_contents();
ob_flush();

not sure if is saves error messages yet.

Also - the file_get_contents gave me an idea - break my page into server and call them using file_get_contents to get the result back... may work too.

as far as $html .= - I need the error messages as well if possible

Thanks guys