[ASP]Response.clear >> what is its equivalen in PHP

[oceanebelle]

Response.clear

does anyone know its equivalent in php ?

[visualAd]

What does response.clear do?

[mendhak]

It clears the buffered HTML output after the previous flush.

[visualAd]

Yes there is an equivilent in PHP. However, you have to turn on output buffering. You can find information about it here.

Basically, you should use the ob_start() function to start the buffer and call ob_flush() whenever you want to flush the buffer. By default however, PHP handles all output control.

[mendhak]

Same thing in ASP, you need to enable it first. Of course I didn't know its PHP equivalent nor do I think I'll ever use it.

[CornedBee]

I use output buffering only when I have something (an include file or a function) that writes to the console, but I really want it in a variable.

ob_start();
include('thefile.php');
$data = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

[oceanebelle]

yup. already turned that on.. for header() to work.

uhm.
about flush() function.. what's its difference with ob_flush()?