templates - How to run php code from file_get_contents or file in a function

Question

I am designing my own MVC pattern to ease the process of creating homepages. My templating system needs my controller class to output my views. This means I have to output the file through a php function. I have been searching for some a while now and can't seem to find a solution.

How can I, through a PHP function, run a string representing some source code ("< ?", "< ?php", "? >" and so on) as php? Eval would not take my < ? signs (and I read that function is crap for some reason).

Answer 1

You could execute the php code and collect the output like this:

ob_start();
include "template.phtml";
$out1 = ob_get_clean();

http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.ob-get-contents.php