How do you define a PHP include as a string?

Question

I tried:

$test = include \'test.php\';

But that just included the file normally

Answer 1

Solution #1: Make use of include (works like a function): [My best solution]

File index.php:

File included.php:

test HTML

This will output FOO BAR, but Note: Works like a function, so RETURN passes contents back to variable (

test HTML

will be lost in the above)

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Solution #2: op_buffer():

File index.php:

File included.php:

test HTML

If you use ob_get_contents() it will output FOO BAR

test HTML

TWICE, make sure you use ob_get_clean()

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Solution #3: file_get_contents():

File index.php:

File included.php:

$foo = 'FOO';
print $foo.' '.$bar;

This will output FOO BAR, but Note: Include.php should not have opening and closing tags as you are running it through eval()