Include issue

[Joey2250]

Hello, I am having an issue when I use "include"

I am basically trying to full fill a request to a customer to clean up his code. I am doing this:

<?php
include 'codebefore.php';
?>

<table>  

  <more html />
</table>

<?php
include 'codeafter.php';
?>

Now I am getting a parse error due to open curlies in 'codebefore.php'. My issue is that I want to keep the code the same, the ending curlies appear in the 'codeafter.php' I essentially want to wrap the code around this table.

I know the code is correct, when I don't move it to the included files it executes fine. Is there a different method than "include" that could just take the code from these separate files at runtime and insert it into the main document?

I noticed there is a very active thread on the parse error issue, but mine is not about why I get that error, I already know. Now im just trying to work around it.

[NogDog]

I suspect the "best" answer is rethinking the design so that you don't want to do this. (I know, that's sort of like the old joke: "PATIENT: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. DOCTOR: Then don't do that.")

I'm trying to imagine a situation where I might want to have something in my main script be wrapped by two separate include files that split up an opening and closing brace between them; and my imagination is failing. So I guess that I, at least, need a better understanding of why you are doing this before offering any suggestions. (Oh, I suppose you could do something truly ugly with file_get_contents() and eval(), but that "cure" would probably be worse than the illness.)