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<h1 class="refname">ob_get_status</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">ob_get_status</span> — <span class="dc-title">Get status of output buffers</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ob_get_status</strong></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <code class="parameter">$full_status</code> <span class="initializer"> = FALSE</span></span>
] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
<span class="function"><strong>ob_get_status()</strong></span> returns status information on either
the top level output buffer or all active output buffer levels if
<code class="parameter">full_status</code> is set to <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong>.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.ob-get-status-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<code class="parameter">full_status</code></dt>
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<p class="para">
<strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> to return all active output buffer levels. If <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> or not
set, only the top level output buffer is returned.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.ob-get-status-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
If called without the <code class="parameter">full_status</code> parameter
or with <code class="parameter">full_status</code> = <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> a simple array
with the following elements is returned:
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<div class="returnvaluescode"><pre class="returnvaluescode">Array
(
[level] => 2
[type] => 0
[status] => 0
[name] => URL-Rewriter
[del] => 1
)</pre>
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<caption><strong>Simple <span class="function"><strong>ob_get_status()</strong></span> results</strong></caption>
<thead><tr><th>Key</th><th>Value</th>
</tr></thead><tbody><tr class="seglistitem"><td class="seg">level</td><td class="seg">Output nesting level</td></tr>
<tr class="seglistitem"><td class="seg">type</td><td class="seg"><em>PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_INTERNAL (0)</em> or <em>PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_USER (1)</em></td></tr>
<tr class="seglistitem"><td class="seg">status</td><td class="seg">One of <em>PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_START</em> (0), <em>PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_CONT</em> (1) or <em>PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_END</em> (2)</td></tr>
<tr class="seglistitem"><td class="seg">name</td><td class="seg">Name of active output handler or ' default output handler' if none is set</td></tr>
<tr class="seglistitem"><td class="seg">del</td><td class="seg">Erase-flag as set by <span class="function"><a href="function.ob-start.html" class="function">ob_start()</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<p class="para">
If called with <code class="parameter">full_status</code> = <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> an array
with one element for each active output buffer level is returned.
The output level is used as key of the top level array and each array
element itself is another array holding status information
on one active output level.
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Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[chunk_size] => 0
[size] => 40960
[block_size] => 10240
[type] => 1
[status] => 0
[name] => default output handler
[del] => 1
)
[1] => Array
(
[chunk_size] => 0
[size] => 40960
[block_size] => 10240
[type] => 0
[buffer_size] => 0
[status] => 0
[name] => URL-Rewriter
[del] => 1
)
)
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<p class="para">
The full output contains these additional elements:
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<caption><strong>Full <span class="function"><strong>ob_get_status()</strong></span> results</strong></caption>
<thead><tr><th>Key</th><th>Value</th>
</tr></thead><tbody><tr class="seglistitem"><td class="seg">chunk_size</td><td class="seg">Chunk size as set by <span class="function"><a href="function.ob-start.html" class="function">ob_start()</a></span></td></tr>
<tr class="seglistitem"><td class="seg">size</td><td class="seg">...</td></tr>
<tr class="seglistitem"><td class="seg">blocksize</td><td class="seg">...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.ob-get-status-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.ob-get-level.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ob_get_level()</a> - Return the nesting level of the output buffering mechanism</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.ob-list-handlers.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ob_list_handlers()</a> - List all output handlers in use</span></li>
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