Have you ever included a file into your php web application or used a function that executes an echo rather than a return? Have you ever wanted to capture the data returned into a variable instead? Well here’s how:
1 2 3 4 | ob_start(); // always start with this the_title(); // this function does an echo $title = ob_get_contents(); // this grabs the echo and stores the data as $title ob_end_clean(); // always end with this |
This will store the data echoed from the_title() as $title. For more information take a look at PHP.net’s entry on ob_start.
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