Are php includes possible?

Is it possible to add something like
<?php include("../top.inc"); ?>
in the page body. I tried adding it to the templates but it gets passed through to the output stream without being actioned.

thanks
Geo
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what templates?

agb or poll?

As has been discussed in this forum several times NO. The search function is a wonderful, yet rarely used, thing. The templates are made into strings. For a php function to get called a file has to be passed to the processor and the templates do not. You can put the function/call somewhere in the code and turn the output into a string variable and then place the string variable in the templates.

I will not be discussing this subject again.