Question

Suppose if I have a PHP script test.php which have a method

<?php
function execute($filename){
    //do something

    return $output;
}
?> 

and I also have another PHP script executable.php

<?php 
    echo "I am executed";
?>

then can i run any code to excute the second file and return the output from the first method execute when i call echo execute('executable.php'); ?

I guess you guys can understand what I meant.

Answer 1

You can use output buffering, as long as the file being included doesn’t already do that:

ob_start();

require $filename;

$content = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_clean();

return $content;