Extracting Output from File...

Basically there is a php page... lets say http://www.myserver.com/outputpage.php that picks up some info from a database and echos it out as plain text to the browser. I want to use php in a different file to go pick up whatever is printed out to that file and save it to a variable.. basically like - $contentofpage = getoutput("http://www.myserver.com/outputpage"); any ideas? I need it to pick up the output, not something that actually reads the content of the file... Russ Jones