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Jakub Vrana f68abbe82c Document callback signatures
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.ob-start">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ob_start</refname>
<refpurpose>Turn on output buffering</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ob_start</methodname>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>callable</type><parameter>output_callback</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>chunk_size</parameter><initializer>0</initializer></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>bool</type><parameter>erase</parameter><initializer>true</initializer></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
This function will turn output buffering on. While output buffering is
active no output is sent from the script (other than headers), instead the
output is stored in an internal buffer.
</para>
<para>
The contents of this internal buffer may be copied into a string variable
using <function>ob_get_contents</function>. To output what is stored in
the internal buffer, use <function>ob_end_flush</function>. Alternatively,
<function>ob_end_clean</function> will silently discard the buffer
contents.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
Some web servers (e.g. Apache) change the working directory of a script
when calling the callback function. You can change it back by e.g.
<literal>chdir(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))</literal> in the
callback function.
</para>
</warning>
<para>
Output buffers are stackable, that is, you may call
<function>ob_start</function> while another
<function>ob_start</function> is active. Just make
sure that you call <function>ob_end_flush</function>
the appropriate number of times. If multiple output callback
functions are active, output is being filtered sequentially
through each of them in nesting order.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>output_callback</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
An optional <parameter>output_callback</parameter> function may be
specified. This function takes a string as a parameter and should
return a string. The function will be called when
the output buffer is flushed (sent) or cleaned (with
<function>ob_flush</function>, <function>ob_clean</function> or similar
function) or when the output buffer
is flushed to the browser at the end of the request. When
<parameter>output_callback</parameter> is called, it will receive the
contents of the output buffer as its parameter and is expected to
return a new output buffer as a result, which will be sent to the
browser. If the <parameter>output_callback</parameter> is not a
callable function, this function will return &false;.
This is the callback signature:
</para>
<para>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname><replaceable>handler</replaceable></methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>buffer</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>phase</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>buffer</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
Contents of the output buffer.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>phase</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
Bitmask of <constant>PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_*</constant> constants.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
If <parameter>output_callback</parameter> returns &false; original
input is sent to the browser.
</para>
<para>
The <parameter>output_callback</parameter> parameter may be bypassed
by passing a &null; value.
</para>
<para>
<function>ob_end_clean</function>, <function>ob_end_flush</function>,
<function>ob_clean</function>, <function>ob_flush</function> and
<function>ob_start</function> may not be called from a callback
function. If you call them from callback function, the behavior is
undefined. If you would like to delete the contents of a buffer,
return "" (a null string) from callback function.
You can't even call functions using the output buffering functions like
<literal>print_r($expression, true)</literal> or
<literal>highlight_file($filename, true)</literal> from a callback
function.
</para>
<note>
<para>
In PHP 4.0.4, <function>ob_gzhandler</function> was introduced to
facilitate sending gz-encoded data to web browsers that support
compressed web pages. <function>ob_gzhandler</function> determines
what type of content encoding the browser will accept and will return
its output accordingly.
</para>
</note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>chunk_size</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If the optional parameter <parameter>chunk_size</parameter> is passed, the
buffer will be flushed after any output call which causes the buffer's
length to equal or exceed <parameter>chunk_size</parameter>. The default
value <literal>0</literal> means that the output function will only be
called when the output buffer is closed.
</para>
<para>
Prior to PHP 5.4.0, the value <literal>1</literal> was a special case
value that set the chunk size to 4096 bytes.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>erase</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If the optional parameter <parameter>erase</parameter> is set to &false;,
the buffer will not be deleted until the script finishes.
This causes that flushing and cleaning functions would issue a notice
and return &false; if called.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
&return.success;
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="changelog">
&reftitle.changelog;
<para>
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>&Version;</entry>
<entry>&Description;</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>5.4.0</entry>
<entry>
A chunk size of <literal>1</literal> now results in chunks of 1 byte
being sent to the output buffer.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>4.3.2</entry>
<entry>
This function was changed to return &false; in case the passed
<parameter>output_callback</parameter> can not be executed.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>4.2.0</entry>
<entry>
Added the <parameter>erase</parameter> parameter.
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title>User defined callback function example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
function callback($buffer)
{
// replace all the apples with oranges
return (str_replace("apples", "oranges", $buffer));
}
ob_start("callback");
?>
<html>
<body>
<p>It's like comparing apples to oranges.</p>
</body>
</html>
<?php
ob_end_flush();
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
&example.outputs;
<screen>
<![CDATA[
<html>
<body>
<p>It's like comparing oranges to oranges.</p>
</body>
</html>
]]>
</screen>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<para>
<simplelist>
<member><function>ob_get_contents</function></member>
<member><function>ob_end_clean</function></member>
<member><function>ob_end_flush</function></member>
<member><function>ob_implicit_flush</function></member>
<member><function>ob_gzhandler</function></member>
<member><function>ob_iconv_handler</function></member>
<member><function>mb_output_handler</function></member>
<member><function>ob_tidyhandler</function></member>
</simplelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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