replacing text to do php includes

does anyone know a code if i put "[:body:]" inside somewhere of my design it will be replaced and it will include a php file?

perhaps regular expressions would help out a bit?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php

Slurp the contents of the include and the design template into variables and then do a regex such as preg_replace("/\[:body:\]/",$include_txt,$template) and print the results.

for the $include_txt i cant replace it with "include('pages.php');" ?

that's something I didn't consider when i mentioned regular expressions... (oops)

velocityX, you can't do it that way since include() doesn't return the information, it simply displays it... I can't really think of a way to clarify this at all...

If its only HTML you're reading from the include file, then you could simply use fread...

here's a sample from the php documenation:
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

so there's no way I can replace [:body:] with any includes?

Well, the solution MadCow and I have proposed effectively replaces [:body:] with an include -- it's just a roundabout way of doing it.

The way posted above is the only possible way to do this, if you are using it on a url and need the code, let me know ...

Well, I guess he velocity is trying to include a text file because a php file wont be required to be included in a particular place for its variables to be available.

So MadCow's way is efficient.