Question

PHP has include and require_once which are equivalent to JSP’s include directive(<%@ include ..%>)
JSP also has a jsp:include which only includes the output from the included file, keeping the included file in a servlet of its own.

I am looking for something similar in PHP, so that the main page’s variables and other content don’t mess with those of the included files.
Does one exist?

Answer 1

An easy solution is to include the file inside a function to prevent the scope of the file from littering the global namespace.

function jsp_include($file) {
    include($file);
}