PHP: ob_get_clean

Description

string ob_get_clean ( void )

This will return the contents of the output buffer and end output buffering. If output buffering isn't active then FALSE is returned. ob_get_clean() essentially executes both ob_get_contents() and ob_end_clean().

Example 1. A simple ob_get_clean() example

<?php ob_start(); echo "Hello World"; $out = ob_get_clean(); $out = strtolower($out); var_dump($out); ?>
Our example will output:
string(11) "hello world"

User Contributed Notes
ob_get_clean

webmaster at ragnarokonline dot de
01-Oct-2003 07:21


Running PHP4 < 4.3.0, you can simply add the following to use the function anyway:



<?php

if (!function_exists("ob_get_clean")) {

    function ob_get_clean() {

        $ob_contents = ob_get_contents();

        ob_end_clean();

        return $ob_contents;

    }

}

?>

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