Accessing my remote php files

If I have a server set up here locally and I want to move a php file from my remote server to a php program (for instance, using Content-Disposition: attachment), this should not work because the file will get parsed on the remote server and I will just see the output (of what that script does), correct?

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Depends on how you send the file contents; it's up to you whether to include it as an attachment that contains the actual file contents or the parsed output. Check out the descriptions of the filesystem functions at php.net, there are differences.