Question

I think im a bit over my head on this, but I have a wordpress function that i cant control and it outputs HTML.

It specifically outputs a <a> tag. When i try to store that output into a variable it just echos out the anchor tag even though i thought i stored the output.

I talked to someone that knows more about this and they said the function probably is using its own output system.

Im wondering if there is a way to store the functions output before it echos it out. Like this(but this doesn’t work):

$link = wp_function();

This echos out the tag and doesn’t store the data.

Answer 1

<?php
ob_start();
wp_function();
$link = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
?>

Same issue here, How do I capture PHP output into a variable?