<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Clean (erase) the output buffer</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.flush.html">flush</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ob-end-clean.html">ob_end_clean</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.outcontrol.html">Output Control Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.ob-clean" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">ob_clean</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">ob_clean</span> — <span class="dc-title">Clean (erase) the output buffer</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.ob-clean-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type"><span class="type void">void</span></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ob_clean</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam">void</span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> This function discards the contents of the output buffer. </p> <p class="para"> This function does not destroy the output buffer like <span class="function"><a href="function.ob-end-clean.html" class="function">ob_end_clean()</a></span> does. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.ob-clean-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> No value is returned. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.ob-clean-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ob-flush.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ob_flush()</a> - Flush (send) the output buffer</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ob-end-flush.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ob_end_flush()</a> - Flush (send) the output buffer and turn off output buffering</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ob-end-clean.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ob_end_clean()</a> - Clean (erase) the output buffer and turn off output buffering</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.flush.html">flush</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ob-end-clean.html">ob_end_clean</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.outcontrol.html">Output Control Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>