Is there any way to return HTML in a PHP function? (without building the return value as a string)

Question

I have a PHP function that I\'m using to output a standard block of HTML. It currently looks like this:

Answer 1

Another way to do is is to use file_get_contents() and have a template HTML page

TEMPLATE PAGE

$content

PHP Function

function YOURFUNCTIONNAME($url){

$html_string = file_get_contents($url);
return $html_string;

}