Include text from other files in PHP

Question

I want to create templates for my website.

So let's say this is mine template_header.php:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>
            '.$email_subject.'
        </title>
    </head>
    <body>

And this is mine template_footer.php:

    </body>
</html>

As I know, I can use output buffering to include these patterns. This is my code:

<?php
ob_start();
include "template_header.php";
?>
<p>Text</p>
<?php
include "template_footer.php";
$message = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
?>

But that will not work! $messageis empty! Even when I do var_export($message), I get nothing !!! Even an empty string.

+4

vmoh_ir 10 sept. '17 at 17:09

1 answer

deg · Answer 1 · 2017-09-10T17:14:10+0000

This works for me.

ob_start(); 
//print all the things - and I mean print. echoing and plain html work.
$message = ob_get_clean();

echo $message;