Question

Is it possible in PHP to grab the output of HTML code into a variable? Basically, I’m searching for a shorthand for this code:

<?php ob_start(); ?>
<div class="headSection">
    <h1><?=$headline?></h1>
    <p><?=$bottomline?></p>
</div>
<?php $contents = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); ?>

I want the HTML code to be saved in the $contents variable.

Answer 1

use PHP’s EOF string

$str = <<<EOF
<div class="headSection">
    <h1>$headline</h1>
    <p>$bottomline</p>
</div>
EOF;
    echo $str;

Demo http://codepad.org/9OeUiJNJ