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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/14/07 23:34
C. wrote:
> On 14 Apr, 03:58, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> ken wrote:
>>> is there a way to make a php page only output content that is generated
>>> from php statements, such as print, or echo? ie: if I have whitespace
>>> (or other text) outside my <?php .... ?> block i do not want that to be
>>> returned.
>>> of course i can do this by making sure my php file starts with <?php and
>>> ends with ?> and there is no leading or trailing whitespace. but if
>>> whitespace does creep into my file then it would be neat if there was
>>> some kind of directive or something that would make sure it doesn't get
>>> output.
>>> i ask this because the output from my script will be interpreted by
>>> another program so i want the output to be specific space delimited
>>> values with no leading/trailing whitespace.
>>> of course i should probably just output my content in xml format and
>>> make my interpreting program parse xml, which accommodates for
>>> whitespace... but... that would be smart, which i am not.
>>> thanks!
>>> ken
>> No. PHP has no control over what's outside the <?php and ?> tags.
>>
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>
> Not necessarily true. There's nothing to stop you writing a filter (in
> PHP or other language) which processes a PHP script to return just the
> PHP code, and then pass that through the interpreter - and with
> mod_rewrite it could all be done transparently. But its not the way to
> solve the OPs problem.
>
> C.
>
Exactly true. In your case you're using PHP to filter a file. It does
not mean that PHP has any control over what's outside the <?php and ?>
tags. It means you're using a language (it could be ANY language) to
modify the text.
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