save page in php

Question

Hi all, I am writing a web program using mvc php framework. I have index and another view which I want to render the view inside of my index. First I call view then I call index and put view into it. My problem is I want to save the whole view into a variable and do something like echo $view in my index. both require_once and include_once will show my view instantly. I want to save the page with it's variables. Any idea?

Answer 1

Use output buffering functions. For example:

ob_start();

include('some_page.php');
doSomeOtherStuff();

$contents = ob_get_clean();

$contents will now contain the contents of the page without actually outputting anything to the browser. You can then echo the contents where you see fit.