How do I capture the result of an echo() into a variable in PHP?

Question

I\'m using a PHP library that echoes a result rather than returns it. Is there an easy way to capture the output from echo/print and store it in a variable? (Other text has

Answer 1

You should really rewrite the class if you can. I doubt it would be that hard to find the echo/print statements and replace them with $output .=. Using ob_xxx does take resources.