Replacing {{string}} within php file

Question

I\'m including a file in one of my class methods, and in that file has html + php code. I return a string in that code. I explicitly wrote {{newsletter}} and th

Answer 1

no, don't include for this. include is executing php code. and it's return value is the value the included file returns - or if there is no return: 1.

What you want is file_get_contents():

// Here it is safe to use eval(), but it IS NOT a good practice.
$contactStr = file_get_contents('templates/contact.php');
eval(str_replace("{{newsletter}}", $newsletterStr, $contactStr));