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I want 1 PHP file to "run" (include?) another PHP file on the same server, and access its echo'ed output as a string.

How do i do this in PHP? Any inbuilt functions to do this?

Or any better way of executing another PHP file and getting its output?

+6  A: 

You can use PHP's output buffering to accomplish this:

ob_start(); // begin collecting output

include 'myfile.php';

$result = ob_get_clean(); // retrieve output from myfile.php, stop buffering

$result will then contain the text.

Jesse Rusak
I'd also answer with `ob_start()`, you didn't
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