Question

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Possible to capture PHP echo output?

Now I have:

function showwish()
{
  echo 'happy new year';
}

and I want to assign $somevariable = showwish;

How to do this task without any error.

Note: Not allow edit showwish function.

Answer 1

function showwish()
{
  ob_start();
  echo 'happy new year';
  return ob_get_clean();
}

Or if all your doing is returning one string:

function showwish()
{
  return 'happy new year';
}

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Based on comment below by the OP that he cannot edit the showwish fn:

ob_start();
showwish();
$someVar = ob_get_clean();