[wp-hackers] Returning instead of echoing

[Alex King]

An easy way to get the echoed/printed content into a variable:

<?php

ob_start();
the_title();
$my_title = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

print($my_title);

?>

--Alex

http://www.alexking.org/


On Nov 6, 2004, at 1:46 PM, Michael Heilemann wrote:

> I've been wondering for some time now. In fact, ever since I started 
> to learn a bit of PHP, so that I could write Kubrick 
> (binarybonsai.com/kubrick), why on God's green Earth the majority of 
> the functions in WordPress echo rather than return their results?
>
> I can't really come up with any particular reason for doing it this 
> way, rather than simply returning the result for easy inline parsing 
> if needed...
>
> The way it is now, when I for instance want to add a title="" to the 
> comment link, I have to dig out the code somewhere inside the core of 
> WordPress and change it. Which I can deal with... Until the next 
> version rolls around and I have to deal with upgrading my hacked 
> codebase.
>
> If instead comments_popup_link was divided into two seperate 
> functions, one for fetching the URI, and one for fetching the number 
> of comments, I could echo them out and do whatever the devil I wanted 
> with them...
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Aloha, Mike
> http://binarybonsai.com
>
>
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