Question

I wish to call a local PHP page with PHP with the server side code already executed.

For instance, if I have a page with the following content:

Hello, this is <?php $name="John"; echo $name ?>

I wish to have a get command such as file_get_contents(local_php_page) or fopen(handle) return:

Hello, this is John

Rather than

Hello, this is <?php $name="John"; echo $name ?>

What’s the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Output Buffering should be able to do that for you:

ob_start();
include 'myfile.php';
$xhtml = ob_get_clean();

You could also get the output of your include, eg:

$xhtml = include 'myfile.php';

For more on this, check out The PHP Manual