Why would someone use ob_start in this manner and what is the point?

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Published on 2011-01-06T22:04:33Z Indexed on 2011/01/07 1:54 UTC
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Something is failing in the class I copied over. It's not my class, but the relevant bit that fails is:

class foo {
  function process() {
    ob_start( array( &$this, 'parseTemplate' ) );
  }

  function parseTemplate(){}

}

Does anyone know what the ob_start expression is supposed to do? Call the parse_template method in the context of a copy of &$this? PHP Version is 5.3.2-1. I suspect that the class was coded for 5.0-5.2 and it breaks in 5.3? or could it be something else?

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