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<h1 class="refname">ob_get_contents</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">ob_get_contents</span> — <span class="dc-title">Return the contents of the output buffer</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ob_get_contents</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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Gets the contents of the output buffer without clearing it.
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This will return the contents of the output buffer or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>, if output
buffering isn't active.
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<p><strong>Example #1 A simple <span class="function"><strong>ob_get_contents()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />ob_start</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br />echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Hello "</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$out1 </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">ob_get_contents</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br />echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"World"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$out2 </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">ob_get_contents</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">ob_end_clean</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$out1</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$out2</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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string(6) "Hello "
string(11) "Hello World"
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ob-start.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ob_start()</a> - Turn on output buffering</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ob-get-length.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ob_get_length()</a> - Return the length of the output buffer</span></li>
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