indexing with fopen

Hi, I am trying to add a search to the site i am developing but i ran into a bit of a problem. Since the site is mainly dynamic (lots of includes and mysql queries), i thought of building an index table that will contain the insides of all the pages in the site tree. I was thinking of opening each page with fopen, stripping the html, and storing it in a database table. Then i would only search there. The problem is that i cant seem to read the pages with fopen: example of urls: index.php?m=1 index.php?m=1&s=3 If i try to do this: $page=fopen('index.php?m=1',"r"); if($page){ while (!feof($page)) { $buff = fgets($page,4096); $totalpage .= $buff; } }else{ echo "error"; } I dont get the resolved content in $totalpage, but i get the includes and php commands that are inside index.php, which i find very strange. Should they resolve before they are retrieved? Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks. Miguel