Output Buffering for Web Developers, a Beginner’s Guide: Without output buffering (the default), your HTML is sent to the browser in pieces as PHP processes through your script. With output buffering, your HTML is stored in a variable and sent to the browser as one piece at the end of your script. Advantages of output … Read more
Think of ob_start() as saying “Start remembering everything that would normally be outputted, but don’t quite do anything with it yet.” For example: ob_start(); echo(“Hello there!”); //would normally get printed to the screen/output to browser $output = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); There are two other functions you typically pair it with: ob_get_contents(), which basically gives you whatever … Read more