is it possible to assign a variable an include file?

[darga333]

ex.

$message = include('template.php');

then i can send the $message variable to the mail(); function

thank you!

darga333

[Orio]

This is what you need:
$msg=file_get_contents(template.php);

[a href=\"http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php[/a]

[darga333]

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This is what you need:
$msg=file_get_contents(template.php);

[a href=\"http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php[/a]
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orio you are the man! thnx!!

[!--quoteo(post=368952:date=Apr 26 2006, 02:58 PM:name=darga333)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(darga333 @ Apr 26 2006, 02:58 PM) [snapback]368952[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
orio you are the man! thnx!!
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problem!! when i do that, it gets the file contents, but it doesnt include the php thats inside of it as an include would, any solutions?

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orio you are the man! thnx!!
problem!! when i do that, it gets the file contents, but it doesnt include the php thats inside of it as an include would, any solutions?
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what i mean by that is I have php variables inside that mail template, the variables in that mail template that i am including are determined by the file that i put the include statement in

for instance...

/* some php here *\

$message=file_get_contents('mailer_template.php');
echo $message;

... it just spits out the same $message
include works, but it wont let me assign a variable to it like this
$message = include('mailer_template.php');