kkhan00

Okay, I JUST figured this out! woohoo!

So the reason why it was outputting the header twice is because I was using ob_end_flush which actually outputs whatever was inside the buffer. Changing that to ob_end_clean will get rid of the contents inside the buffer without outputting it to the screen.

Anyhow, I guess this can be useful to someone in the future. Also, if anyone else knows a better way of doing this PLEASE share it!

So, in the end, to get the contents of get_header() or any other void functions within WordPress without having it displayed on the screen, use the following code:

ob_start(); // starts the internal buffer
get_header(); // or get_footer, etc

   $content = get_ob_contents(); //

ob_end_clean();

sorry, I may have spoken too soon.

The code I tried above actually does copy the get_header(); content onto the variable, however, it shows the content twice on the page when I try to get the variable content displayed.

no it doesn’t.

The code above doesn’t even create a separate output stream I think. By calling get_header(); after ob_start();, it just displays the content on the page as if you were to call get_header(); normally.

Maybe I’m doing this wrong?

Can you elaborate a little? I tried this but all it did was again just display the contents of get_header();

ob_start();
get_header();

  $wordpress_header = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_flush();