Storing the HTML output from a local PHP file into a string using file_get_contents

Question

There is a header.php file and it contains some php codes that return HTML. I know I can use require, include to echo the results, but what I want to do is to store its proc

Answer 1

I'd rather use require() wrapped inside ob_start() and ob_get_clean(). I am sure there is nothing wrong with this approach.