Include contents of file as variable

[SJH]

Hi guys,

What I need to be able to do is as follows:

• Include the contents of a local file as a PHP variable
• Execute any PHP code found in said file
• Output the contents simply by calling echo $variable; at a later stage in the script

First off I tried simply using $content = include('myfile.inc.php'); with the hope of calling $content later but that included the contents of the file immediately rather than setting the contents as the value of the variable.

The reason I need to do this is because I need to pass $content as a parameter to a template class to be output on the generated page.

This has got to be possible... but I really have no clue as to how!

Thanks for any and all help 🙂

Sam

[SJH]

Don't worry, I seem to have found a solution:

ob_start();
include('../content/admin_home.inc.php');
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

And this seems to work nicely 🙂

Sam