The require_once() function is only needed when you are pulling in a file of functions and you code is such that this command could execute more than once.

If you just need to pull in a common html file, such as the navigation for a site, then you should be using the

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include('navigation.html');

instruction.

Any php code within this file can pick up any variables set by other snippets of php elsewhere in the host file.