[dev] Problem with compression and bufferOutput call?

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Wed Jul 30 05:10:59 PDT 2003


Quoting Chris <chris at jeks.net>:

> Out of the 21 or so times bufferOutput is used, 14 of them are just
> require's and include's of files. I just found it odd that this simple
> action (for which there is a PHP primitive now - file_get_contents())
> was wrapped in something like this.

How is file_get_contents() equivalent? The files being included contain PHP code
that needs to be parsed. Secondarily, we are not requiring people to have PHP
4.3 or later, which is when file_get_contents() was introduced.

> Every other function that uses bufferOutput is internal to Horde.

... and many/most of them include templates.

-chuck

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