well, after a bunch of mucking around, i got it to work by doing the ouput buffer calls right before and after the smarty stuff...

ob_start();
$serendipity['smarty']->display(serendipity_getTemplateFile($serendipity['smarty_file'], 'serendipityPath'));
$stuff = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean ...

:?

yes, it works fine on my server. i wonder what's up with godaddy's hosting that's breaking it. they're running fastcgi which might have something to do with it...

what are my options for making this work? can i modify index.php to output a variable rather than printing stuff out itself ...

didn't notice the new command. tried this

<?php
ob_start();
chdir("/home/content/c/j/j/cjjarvis/html/serendipity/");
require("/home/content/c/j/j/cjjarvis/html/serendipity/index.php");
chdir("/home/content/c/j/j/cjjarvis/html/");
$o1 = ob_get_clean();
echo $o1;
?>

same results -- nothing ...

I looked at the ob_*() commands in the docs, and ran a couple test programs - it seems to be behaving properly except when i try to use it in conjunction with s9y. I looked at the index.php file, and it heavily relies on the ob_start, require_once, ob_get_contents, ob_end_clean structures throughout ...

if I require the index.php file, and omit ob_end_clean(), I will see three copies of the expected unformatted output from s9y. It's as if the ob_end_clean() will just dissable any output from being generated at all. I'm running the latest beta version of s9y.

Thnx,
Reza

I've followed the docs, but something is not working. For examle, the following code works as expected :

<?php
ob_start();
echo test;
$o1 = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

echo $o1;
echo $o1;
?>

however

<?php
ob_start();
chdir("/home/content/c/j/j/cjjarvis/html/serendipity ...