How to process a local file rather than just read it

I can read a local file with

fopen("myFile.php");

However this gives me the source of the file (i.e. php code). I want
to get the results of the file after it has been evaluated (i.e. HTML).


The obvious way of doing this is

include 'myfile.php';

However, I want to process the evaluated result. For example:

echo htmlentities( include 'myfile.php' );

This doesn't work because the result of the include statement is true
or false rather than a string.

I'm sure this is very simple, but I'm just learning.

- Jeff -

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