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

Its always good practise not to echo data until your application as fully completed, for example

now session_start along with another string of functions would not work as there's already been data outputted as the response, but by doing the following:

This would work and its less error prone, but if its a must that you need to capture output then you would do:

ob_start();

//Whatever you want here

$data = ob_get_contents();

//Then we clean out that buffer with:
ob_end_clean();