Redirecting output of a function...

[kapok2002]

Here's my problem... I'm trying to assign the output of the include function to a variable. All I get is the status code if I go like: [tt]$var = include("filename&quot[/tt]. $var is 1 at this point. I'm thinking there's some operator that will redirect the output like: [tt]include("filename&quot ?? $var[/tt]. This should change standard output to $var instead of the html source, but what is the redirector (??)? Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks, Matt

 

[rycamor]

Why dont you try doing something like:

$fd = fopen($filename,"r");
$contents = fread($fd,filesize($filename));
fclose($fd);

This opens the file, reads the contents of the file into variable $contents, then closes the file. After that you can do whatever you want with $contents.

If $filename is a file that contains PHP code, you can simply do eval($contents) to run the PHP code.

 

[kapok2002]

I tried that before, except for the eval($contents) part. Thanks for the help, Matt