March 5, 2012
Problems transferring variables into ob
Question by rix
I use the following code to read a template into the buffer (ob). $vars contains all the variables i want to have access to in the template.
print_r($this->vals); //prints out an array of values, value1 => '', value2 => ''...
ob_start();
include myTemplate.php
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo $content;
But then in my template $vals is undefined or i don’t have access to it.
Any idea where I’m going wrong?
Thanks,
Answer by Starx
May be a simple typo error. But you are using $vals instead of $vars.
And if this is not the problem put ob_start() at top.
ob_start();
print_r($this->vals); //prints out an array of values, value1 => '', value2 => ''...
include "myTemplate.php"; //few errors were here, no quotes and semicolon
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo $content;
Just did a quick test, it works.
Update
In case you are trying to get the value of print_r($this -> vals) to $content. There is a very easy way to do this. print_r()[docs] function take another argument as well whether to return or not.
If so, your entire code comes down to this
$content = print_r($this->vals, true);
