Parsing Included File Into a String

Let's say I have a file, called mypage.php. And within that page is some text and some variables, like so:

mypage.php


This is my page. Apples are $color. Dogs like to $action.

Now, let's say on another page, I want to pull the contents of mypage.php into a string, while parsing the variables:

function includepage()
{
$color = "red";
$action = "bark";

$mystring = WHAT DO I DO HERE?

}

I hope that makes some sort of sense, and you can see what I'm trying to do. Help?

Take a look at eval()

I think output buffering is probably a better idea...

ob_start();
include("whatever.php");
$c=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

echo $c;

$c has the contents of the output of whatever.php in it. You can then do what you want with it 🙂