require within a printf Function

[Anon]

I using the printf to generate a html table I have a vertical menu and a regular menu I want these menus to be inclued as seperate .inc file

ie

printf("<table><TR><TD>
require('topmenu.inc');</TD>...

Problem is that its not reading it as a php function it reading it as text what can i do to inclued these file without rewriting the page or is that my only hope???

Thanks

[Anon]

can't you (wild guess) just write

printf("<table>etc" . include(...) . "</table>") ?

[Anon]

No it just prints it as text so you see

require(''); as a text

[Anon]

the easy trick (stupid i didn't think of it earlier) :

pritnf("<table" etc);
require... ;
printf(...)

will work for sure, unless you don't have any print statement in your require-file... but that's fairly easy to solve!