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PHP REQUIRE file input to PHP STRING

I currently have a sort of template file that encompasses text, HTML tags, and <?=PHP expressions?>

I currently use a REQUIRE to effect the "ECHOing"/execution of it to display it in a web page.

I now need that executed text result in a PHP STRING.

how do i get the text WITH the executed PHP expressions from the file into a PHP STRING variable?

thanks

Aaron Tomosky

Like Filegetcontents()?

willsherwood

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but this leaves the PHP expressions unexecuted?

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Aaron Tomosky

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willsherwood

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i couldn't find how to get this to work $StringVar = REQUIRE("file.php");

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willsherwood

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I'm sorry this is so confusing.
I do not want to display anything.
I would like to get the contents of a file into a string.
I would like the string to be "executed" for any PHP expressions amongst the text and HTML tags in the file.

File contents example -- file1.php:

<p>Hello <?="W"."orld"?> </p>

[EOF]

and i want to get that into string $string so that the string
contains "<p>Hello World </>"

thanks

Rik-Legger

Ok, so output buffering should do that for you :)

ob_start();
require 'file1.php';
$string = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

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willsherwood

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got it, thanks for your patience.

willsherwood

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thanks all