Rick Pasotto wrote:
Does php have a facility similar to python's stringIO?
What I'm wanting to do is similar to a mail merge. IOW, I know I can
create an include file like:
$out = <<<EOT
This is an example of $var1 and $var2.
EOT;
and then after assigning values to $var1 and $var2 include that file. I
can later use different values for $var1 and $var2 and get a different
$out with a second include.
Can I someout "include" a string instead of a file? Or maybe there is
some completely different way to do what I want.
template.php
<?php
ob_start();
echo "Hi, my name is {$first_name} {$last_name}.";
return ob_get_clean();
?>
This is two different ways you can do it, bases on your input data array
structure
test.php
<?php
$values = array();
$values[] = array('first_name' => 'Jim','last_name' => 'Lucas');
$values[] = array('first_name' => 'James','last_name' => 'Lucas');
$values[] = array('first_name' => 'Jimmy','last_name' => 'Lucas');
foreach ($values AS $row) {
extract($row);
echo include 'template.php';
}
$values = array();
$values[] = array('Jim','Lucas');
$values[] = array('James','Lucas');
$values[] = array('Jimmy','Lucas');
list($first_name, $last_name) = current($values);
do {
echo include 'template.php';
} while (list($first_name, $last_name) = next($values));
?>
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Jim Lucas
"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
by William Shakespeare
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