Have a look at Zeev Suraski's article on output buffering over at Zend.com,
he discusses just this:
http://www.zend.com/zend/art/buffering.php
(Requires a relatively new version of PHP though.)
Sean Bright
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> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Can PHP code access (as a string) the accumulating
> output stream?
>
>
> Hello, PHP gurus.
>
> This is a long shot. I am wanting to know if there is a
> method available
> from within PHP code, by which I can fetch (in a string) the current
> contents of the HTML output stream. The ideal and simplest
> implementation
> of this idea would be a hypothetical system function
> getOutput(), which
> would return the current serialised output as a string.
>
> The statement : $strOutput = getOutput();
> would return whatever was in the output buffer at the time.
> This would be a
> very powerful facility if available. I have a particular
> application in
> mind where I want to use it.
>
> I would be very grateful if anyone could answer my question.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mark Moorhouse
>
>
>
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