HTML into PHP Variable (HTML outside PHP code)

php output-buffering
Maksim Vi. picture Maksim Vi. · Oct 17, 2009 · Viewed 36.8k times · Source

I am new to php and wondering if I can have something like this:

<?php
 ...
 magicFunctionStart();
?>

<html>
   <head>...</head>
   <body>...</body>
</html>

<?php
 $variable = magicFunctionEnd();
 ...
?>

What I have to use right now is

<?php
 ...
 $variable = "<html><head>...</head><body>...</body></html>"
?>

Which is annoying and not readable.

Answer

Wabbitseason picture Wabbitseason · Oct 17, 2009

Have you tried "output buffering"?

<?php
 ...
 ob_start();
?>

<html>
   <head>...</head>
   <body>...<?php echo $another_variable ?></body>
</html>

<?php
 $variable = ob_get_clean();
 ...
?>

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