PHP file_get_contents with php intact?

Question

As opposed to using an include, which executes the included php in the file...is it possible to save the contents of a php file to a variable - but with the php still intact and

Answer 1

By using $content = file_get_contents('/path/to/your/file.php'); all the PHP tags will be preserved, you can then eval() or tokenize them to do whatever you want.