This is what my function looks like in the theme.php
Code:
function themesidebox($title, $content)
{
/*if (@file_exists($content)) {
$fp = fopen ($content, "r");
print filesize($content);
$content = fread($fp, filesize($content));
fclose ($fp);
$content = "?>$content<?";
$content = eval($content);
} else if (eregi("^http", $content)) {
$fp = fopen ($content, "r");
$content = fread($fp, 65535);
fclose ($fp);
}*/
$tmpl_file = "themes/fiblack3d/blocks.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
eval($thefile);
print $r_file;
}