<!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>Return the contents of 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.ob-get-clean.html">ob_get_clean</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ob-get-flush.html">ob_get_flush</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-get-contents" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <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> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.ob-get-contents-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ob_get_contents</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam">void</span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Gets the contents of the output buffer without clearing it. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.ob-get-contents-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> This will return the contents of the output buffer or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>, if output buffering isn't active. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.ob-get-contents-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-468"> <p><strong>Example #1 A simple <span class="function"><strong>ob_get_contents()</strong></span> example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <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> </span> </code></div> </div> <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> string(6) "Hello " string(11) "Hello World" </pre></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.ob-get-contents-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <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> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.ob-get-clean.html">ob_get_clean</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ob-get-flush.html">ob_get_flush</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>