include into var

Hi there! I need to read and parse a html file into a var. I can't use file() or fgets() because it don't parse the PHP tags in this file. So, I'm using this: $content = include "file.php"; print $content; It works fine. But for this work the content in "file.php" needs to be something like: return "<table border=1>...<b><?=$varone;?></b>...</table>"; How can I do the same thing without placing all the file into a return() statement? Regards, Carlos