How to get the result of an external PHP page into a string using PHP?

[merakli]

I need to get the output of an external php page as a string - just like I can see it on my browser, not the contents of the php file.
There are no parameters, variables etc. I guess this should have a simple answer but I couldn't figure it out. (fopen(), file(), readfile() didn't work)

 

[marcoman]

$s = file_get_contents('http://example.com/page.php');