Posted by d on 11/15/17 11:40

<francescomoi@usa.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> Using PHP 4.3.11, I want my script not to write standard output on the
> webpage, but
> on a textfile.
>
> I tried with:
>
> [code]
> $variableName = 44;
> system("/usr/local/php/bin/php /home/foo/script.php >
> /home/foo/file.txt", $retval);
> [/code]
>
> But '/home/foo/script.php' doesn't consider $variableName.
>
> Is there any way to call '/home/foo/script.php' and make it to write
> standard output
> on a textfile?
>
> Thank you very much.
>

Use output buffering:

ob_start();
system("/bin/date");
$c=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$fp=fopen("/home/foo/file.txt", "wb");
fwrite($fp, $c);
fclose($fp);

The ob_start() causes all the output of the script to be stored in a buffer,
which you have access to.

http://www.php.net/outcontrol

hope that helps!

dave

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