Why wont Str_replace work?

[JREAM]

Im stuck again

 

<?php
// Debuggin
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL); 
//

$file = include('cms/data/blocks/block-1.php');
str_replace("###", '>>', $file); 

?>

 

heres what in the file:

 

 

block 1,

 

blah blah

<br />

###

<br />

 

### something ###

<br />

 

test ### test

<br />

 

[JasonLewis]

If you want to get the contents of a file you need to use file_get_contents(). include() does not return the contents of a file and assign them to a variable.