This seems like it should be an obvious, quick solution, but that's not turning out to be the case.
I have a local file that does some database work and outputs HTML, let's call this file1. I have another file that needs to use some of this information, but shouldn't need to generate it itself, file2.
My plan was to just pull the pre-parsed PHP (at this point HTML) into file2, but it's pulling PHP code instead. This could obviously be handled with eval(), but I'd rather not. Something along the lines of wget() might do the trick, but I'd rather not run command line from my PHP script either if possible.
Is there a solution while avoiding the two options above or do I have to just bite the bullet and use one of them?
Quick Clarification: The entirety of file1 is not used. file2 chops out the parts it needs so simply outputting all resulting HTML from file1 is not viable.
file_get_contents("http://Full.URL"); And to make it pass 30 characters..
-- Edit --
Ok.
when you try file_get_contents on a URL, php will request the URL, just like a good-o-wget does. You can also use this to trigger scripts.
check http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php for more info.
You could try something like the following to buffer the output and save it into a variable:
ob_start();
include "file1.php";
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
Now your $content will contained the 'echoed' output of your source file.
ob_* functions are content buffering family. They temporarily disable outputting data to the STDOUT and instead store echoed content inside a buffer. Documentation.