Question

I would like to make a php file i have a part of a variable i’m building.

ie

$print = 'something';
$print .=  include('register_form.php');

print $print;

However this doesn’t work. register_form.php will be not be included in the $print var, and will be echo’d out before the start of the print out.

Is there a way to achieve this?

I know I could go into register_form.php and make it all a function like register_form() and return its output, however, due to the way I’ve structured this (and i’m a bit of a newb) this would create more headaches then if I could merely do the above attempt.

Thanks for any pointers!

Answer 1

You can do this instead through output buffering.

ob_start();
include('register_form.php');
$print = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();


echo $print;