How to process a local file rather than just read it

[ashepster]

I can read a local file with

fopen("myFile.php");

However this gives me the source of the file (i.e. php code). I want
to get the results of the file after it has been evaluated (i.e. HTML).
The obvious way of doing this is

include 'myfile.php';

However, I want to process the evaluated result. For example:

echo htmlentities( include 'myfile.php' );

This doesn't work because the result of the include statement is true
or false rather than a string.

I'm sure this is very simple, but I'm just learning.

- Jeff -

[ZeldorBlat]

Use include() to parse the file and capture the output with output
buffering. For instance:

ob_start();
include 'myfile.php';
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean(); //discard the buffer since we already have the contents

echo htmlentities($output);

[ashepster]

Wow. That was entirely non-intuitive. I would have thought there was
some php-evaluate() function I was overlooking.

Works great, though. Thanks!

- Jeff -

[NC]

as*******@gmail.com wrote:

Wow. That was entirely non-intuitive. I would have thought
there was some php-evaluate() function I was overlooking.

There is: http://www.php.net/eval

But include() works much faster.

Cheers,
NC

[BKDotCom]

I suppose/think you could load it with fopen etc as you describe and
then use eval($file_contents)... but that would be silly

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

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as*******@gmail.com wrote:

I would have thought there was
some php-evaluate() function I was overlooking.

You can do it that way too. Have a look at http://php.net/eval .

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