PHP Manual: Get the contents of the active output buffer and turn it off

Description

stringfalse ob_get_clean()

This function calls the output handler (with the PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_CLEAN and PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_FINAL flags), discards it's return value, returns the contents of the active output buffer and turns off the active output buffer.

ob_get_clean will fail without an active output buffer started with the PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_REMOVABLE flag.

ob_get_clean will discard the contents of the active output buffer even if it was started without the PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_CLEANABLE flag.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns the contents of the active output buffer on success or false on failure.

Caution

ob_get_clean will return false but will not generate an E_NOTICE if there is no active output buffer.

Errors/Exceptions

If the function fails it generates an E_NOTICE.

Examples

Example #1 A simple ob_get_clean example

<?php

ob_start();

echo "Hello World";

$out = ob_get_clean();
$out = strtolower($out);

var_dump($out);
?>

The above example will output:


string(11) "hello world"

ob_get_clean

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