Is there a way to force phpinfo() to output its stuff without formatting. Just like in CLI mode?

Question

But of course in normal mode not CLI. Formated output included among other HTML destroys existing webpage layout.

Answer 1

This function does a great job at converting phpinfo into an array.

function parse_phpinfo() {
    ob_start(); phpinfo(INFO_MODULES); $s = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean();
    $s = strip_tags($s, '<h2><th><td>');
    $s = preg_replace('/<th[^>]*>([^<]+)<\/th>/', '<info>\1</info>', $s);
    $s = preg_replace('/<td[^>]*>([^<]+)<\/td>/', '<info>\1</info>', $s);
    $t = preg_split('/(<h2[^>]*>[^<]+<\/h2>)/', $s, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
    $r = array(); $count = count($t);
    $p1 = '<info>([^<]+)<\/info>';
    $p2 = '/'.$p1.'\s*'.$p1.'\s*'.$p1.'/';
    $p3 = '/'.$p1.'\s*'.$p1.'/';
    for ($i = 1; $i < $count; $i++) {
        if (preg_match('/<h2[^>]*>([^<]+)<\/h2>/', $t[$i], $matchs)) {
            $name = trim($matchs[1]);
            $vals = explode("\n", $t[$i + 1]);
            foreach ($vals AS $val) {
                if (preg_match($p2, $val, $matchs)) { // 3cols
                    $r[$name][trim($matchs[1])] = array(trim($matchs[2]), trim($matchs[3]));
                } elseif (preg_match($p3, $val, $matchs)) { // 2cols
                    $r[$name][trim($matchs[1])] = trim($matchs[2]);
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return $r;
}