Is this possible?

What I am trying to accomplish:

* Create a html template in the form of a string
* Inside the string, add a script, something like `include 'php/countries.php';`
* Echo entire string to html page

Everything but the 2nd step works. I would like to see a php file echo the question being asked, onto the html page, including an echo from another php file.

**EXAMPLE**

```
echo "<div id=\"first\"><?php include \'countries.php\'; ?></div>";

```

I have tried the above, as well as the below:

**EXAMPLE**

```
echo "<div id=\"first\">".include 'countries.php'."</div>";

```

Would this require eval?

Any and all help is appreciated.