Question

I have a function that is controlling the output of my page:

$page = "<div class='media-title'><h2>{$title}</h2></div><div class='media-image'>{$image}</div><div class='media-desc'>{$desc}</div>";

I would like to include a file “box.php” inside that html that is defined in the $page variable. I tried this:

$page = "<div class='media-title'><h2>{$title}</h2></div><div class='media-image'>{$image}</div><div class="inlinebox">" . include("box.php"); . "</div><div class='media-desc'>{$desc}</div>";

… but it didn’t work. How can I put a php include inside of a variable?

Answer 1

How can I put a php include inside of a variable?

# hello.php
<?php
  return "Hello, World!";
?>

# file.php
$var = include('hello.php');
echo $var;

I would generally avoid such a thing though.