Storing PHP results to a variable

[vaiod]

I am trying to store the results of some php to a variable but having no luck with it. The concept is similar to include but rather then output it where the include is I want all of it stored to a variable.

if ($myvar == TRUE) {
$this_feature = include('this/file');
}

This way I can echo the contents of that variable later in the script where I need it.

Any ideas of how to do this?

[lilleman]

Hi,

If you want the contents in your file to be executed, then do like this:

if( $myvar == true )
{
  ob_start();
  include 'this/file';
  $this_feature = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();
} 

If you just want the content from the file, do like this:

if( $myvar == true )
{
  $this_feature = file_get_contents('this/file');
} 

Yours, Erik.

[vaiod]

Couldn't have been easier... Thanks so much Erik.