include in fwrite

[no1uknowphp]

I have many template where I want them to be includes instead of hard coded...

$static = "hello world"; // works fine...

However...

$static = include("../static_templates/bandpage_template_music_master.inc");

$newshtm = fopen("$file1", "w") or
		die("Couldn't create file.");
fwrite($newshtm, $static)
	or die("Couldn't write to file.");
fclose($newshtm);

When it writes to the file I get a 1 written in the file.

[Anon]

What is going into $static in your code is the return value of the include() function. If PHP succesfully includes the function, it returns 1, and 0 if it couldn't for some reason (like the file wasn't there).

If you want to read the contents of a file into a string, why not use fopen("../static.....","r"); and fread()?