Execute script and catch output

[werdna.sivad]

In PHP I need to be able to execute another script from inside another
and catch the output. How do I do this? The require() and include()
functions will execute a script, but it sends the output to the
browser, I don't want this. I need to be able to catch the output and
store it in a file or perform logic on it.

I've tried doing fopen and hitting the script that way, but the problem
is that doing this kills the session state as if I were a 3rd party
user accessing the system. Any ideas?

[Steve]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:42:06 -0700, werdna.sivad wrote:

In PHP I need to be able to execute another script from inside another
and catch the output. How do I do this? The require() and include()
functions will execute a script, but it sends the output to the
browser, I don't want this. I need to be able to catch the output and
store it in a file or perform logic on it.

I've tried doing fopen and hitting the script that way, but the problem
is that doing this kills the session state as if I were a 3rd party
user accessing the system. Any ideas?

Try popen?

[Smitro]

we**********@gmail.com wrote:

In PHP I need to be able to execute another script from inside another
and catch the output. How do I do this? The require() and include()
functions will execute a script, but it sends the output to the
browser, I don't want this. I need to be able to catch the output and
store it in a file or perform logic on it.

I've tried doing fopen and hitting the script that way, but the problem
is that doing this kills the session state as if I were a 3rd party
user accessing the system. Any ideas?

It won't if you don't tell it to. You can use Require and Include but
just don't have any echo's or print's in the file have only variables.
then grab the variables in the file that required them.

[Colin McKinnon]

we**********@gmail.com wrote:

In PHP I need to be able to execute another script from inside another
and catch the output. How do I do this? The require() and include()
functions will execute a script, but it sends the output to the
browser, I don't want this. I need to be able to catch the output and
store it in a file or perform logic on it.

I've tried doing fopen and hitting the script that way, but the problem
is that doing this kills the session state as if I were a 3rd party
user accessing the system. Any ideas?

Its not very clear what you're trying to acheive here. Taking a wild stab in
the dark....you want to access the page but using the same session id? If
so, you just need to either pass the sessionid in the request variables or
tell the target page that you have it in a cookie. The former can be done
(using GET vars) with the file() and file_get_contents() functions
(assuming config allows it) while the latter needs the libcurl extensions
in PHP (or a lot of coding).

C.

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

On 2005-08-18, we**********@gmail.com <we**********@gmail.com> wrote:

In PHP I need to be able to execute another script from inside another
and catch the output. How do I do this? The require() and include()
functions will execute a script, but it sends the output to the
browser, I don't want this. I need to be able to catch the output and
store it in a file or perform logic on it.

ob_start();
require 'somefile.php';
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_clean();

Be aware that Output Buffering doesn't stop headers being sent out.

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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Tim Van Wassenhove <http://timvw.madoka.be>