Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 11/13/05 00:45

Todd Cary wrote:
> My client's new shared server does not allow printing to a file, so I
> want my print statement to print to a buffer, then I'll send it to the
> user via Headers. This does not work since "print" does no go to the
> buffer, or at least appears not to: I get the errors from the header
> statements;
>
> <?
> ob_start;

You're missing some parentheses on the ob_start function. I think you
meant to write:

ob_start();

> print "This is a test<bf>";

You probably meant <br> in that string too.

> $buf = ob_get_contents();
> $len = strlen($buf);
> ob_end_clean();
> header("Content-type: application/text");

application/text isn't a MIME-Type, is it? Do you mean text/plain?

> header("Content-Length: $len");
> header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=Sfyc.html");
> print($buf);
> ?>
>
> Todd
>

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