Sure,
You can use a .shtml file or similar from
PHP using the "virtual" function:
virtual( "file.shtml");
which by making an Apache sub-requests
returns the SSI parsed result and includes
it in the PHP script.
For documentation on "virtual goto:"
http://www.php.net/manual/function.virtual.php
There's a small glitch: the function changes
the directory so you have to be aware,
there's a workaround also in the commented
documentation.
Luis