Question

How can I get the contents of a PHP file (which also contains HTML) into a variable, and then echo them at a later time inside another PHP file? I also need the contents to execute the PHP in it properly. I tried something like the following, but its just giving me a string of all the contents on the page.

$contents = file_get_contents("myfile");
echo $contents;

Answer 1

Use output buffering and include the file.

ob_start();
include( 'myfile');
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Then, at a later time:

echo $contents;