title: Can you render a PHP file into a variable?
body: <p>If I have a hello.php file like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Hello, &lt;?php echo $foo; ?&gt;!
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to do something like this in some php code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$text = renderPhpToString('hello.php', array('foo'=&gt;'World'));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and end up with</p>
  
  <pre><code>$text == 'Hello, World!'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is this possible with standard PHP 5? Obviously I want more complex templates with loops and so forth.. </p>