Comments on: Preprocessing PHP Includes http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/05/27/preprocessing-php-includes/ Jonathan Fenocchi's personal weblog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:15:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jona http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/05/27/preprocessing-php-includes/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Jona Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:45:21 +0000 http://slightlyremarkable.com/2005/05/preprocessing-php-includes#comment-228 Oh, I hadn't even thought of trying to use the ob-functions. I think I'm going to give it a shot, and see which method is faster -- yours definitely looks more clean! Thanks. Oh, I hadn’t even thought of trying to use the ob-functions. I think I’m going to give it a shot, and see which method is faster — yours definitely looks more clean! Thanks.

]]> By: Dave Child http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/05/27/preprocessing-php-includes/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Dave Child Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:40:05 +0000 http://slightlyremarkable.com/2005/05/preprocessing-php-includes#comment-225 That's a nice tip. There is another way to do this without using remote files, should the need arise. You can use output buffering - flush the buffer and start a new one before the include, then after the include you can grab the contents of the buffer - which will be the processed include - and assign that to a variable. Empty the buffer and you'll then have all content before the include sent to the user and the processed include in a variable, which you can then treat like any other normal variable. <code class="block"> ob_start(); // Starts buffer echo 'Hello World'; ob_flush(); // Flush and empty buffer include('foorbar.php'); // Include file $include = ob_get_clean(); // Ends buffering and assigns contents of buffer (which is now the result of the processed include) to $include $include = preg_replace("/\b(and)\b/i", '$1‘, $include); // And so on ... </code> That’s a nice tip. There is another way to do this without using remote files, should the need arise. You can use output buffering – flush the buffer and start a new one before the include, then after the include you can grab the contents of the buffer – which will be the processed include – and assign that to a variable. Empty the buffer and you’ll then have all content before the include sent to the user and the processed include in a variable, which you can then treat like any other normal variable.


ob_start(); // Starts buffer
echo 'Hello World';
ob_flush(); // Flush and empty buffer
include('foorbar.php'); // Include file
$include = ob_get_clean(); // Ends buffering and assigns contents of buffer (which is now the result of the processed include) to $include
$include = preg_replace("/\b(and)\b/i", '$1‘, $include); // And so on ...

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