How to clear previously echoed items in PHP

by 
<?php

ob_start();
echo 'a';
print 'b';

// some statement that removes all printed/echoed items
ob_end_clean();

echo 'c';

// the final output is equal to 'c', not 'abc'

?>

Output buffering functions

The output buffering functions are also useful in hackery to coerce functions that only print to return strings, ie.

<?php
ob_start();
var_dump($myVar);
$data = ob_get_clean();
// do whatever with $data
?>

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