getting returned value from include

[Anon]

Here is what I want to do:

$html = include( "http://www.clandim.com/CMaps/parser.php?f=printMatchHistoryOpponent" );

I want to pass in the filename to parse and return me an array. The array is the html file split into 3 parts, the header, footer and the template code in the middle to be used in a loop.

Anyway, i can't seem to do that.

How can I make this work?

[shivers]

You probably want to use fopen() rather than include(). Firstly include will execute any PHP code in the included file - for dynamic/off site addresses that is BAD). 2ndly, fopen() gives you more control over the input.

As for splitting the resulting HTML into 3 parts - you'll probably need to write a parser for this yourself. Regular expressions will probably come in handy here.

[Anon]

I want the php code to execute, since at different locations in my code, i will pass it a different get query. The parser.php file will take that and parse some file...and it will split that file into 3 parts, I want the parser.php to return an array of those 3 parts.

Can I do that with either fopen() or include()?