How do you append something to the beginning of the output buffer?
For example, say you have the following code:
ob_start();
echo '<p>Start of page.</p>';
echo '<p>Middle of page.</p>';
echo '<p>End of page</p>';
Before flushing the contents to the browser, how can I append something so that it appears before <p>Start of page.</p>
when the page loads?
It sounds simple enough, like moving the pointer to the beginning of an array, but I couldn't find how to do it with the output buffer.
** PHP 5.3 **
ob_start(function($output) {
$output = '<p>Prepended</p>'.$output;
return $output;
});
echo '<p>Start of page.</p>';
echo '<p>Middle of page.</p>';
echo '<p>End of page</p>';
** PHP < 5.3 **
function prependOutput($output) {
$output = '<p>Appended</p>'.$output;
return $output;
}
ob_start('prependOutput');
echo '<p>Start of page.</p>';
echo '<p>Middle of page.</p>';
echo '<p>End of page</p>';
Use 2 ob_start commands and ob_end_flush() after what you want to first display then end the buffer with ob_end_flush again when you want to output the rest of the page.
eg:
ob_start();
ob_start();
echo '<p>Start of page.</p>';
ob_end_flush();
echo '<p>Middle of page.</p>';
echo '<p>End of page</p>';
ob_end_flush();
See the first parameter of ob_start
(documentation here), it allows you to provide a callback to be called when the buffer is flushed or cleaned. It receives a string as a parameter and outputs a string, therefore it should be easy to
function writeCallback($buffer)
{
return "Added before " . $buffer;
}
ob_start("writeCallback");
You can get content of buffer using ob_get_contents() function
ob_start();
echo "World! ";
$out1 = ob_get_contents();
echo "Hello, ".$out1;
Are you wanting it before any output at all? If so, then you're looking for the auto_prepend_file
directive. http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php