I'm appending a few lines of text to a file. The text may change later, so I want to make it an include for easy edit.

What is the right syntax to include a file as a variable?

I can declare straight text and it works fine. But how can I include some text from a file?

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<?php
     $Text = 'I can put text here and it works';

     $New = fopen("$page.php","a");
     fputs($New, "$Text");
     fclose($New);
?>

Something like this???

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<?php
     $Text = include(this/dont/work.inc);

     $New = fopen("$page.php","a");
     fputs($New, "$Text");
     fclose($New);
?>

Thanks for any help offered.