Separately execute a section of php code on a web page

Question

This is a best practice type question. I'm dealing with two different frameworks. When I execute a piece of code from one framework on the page of another framework, I'm getting a code conflict. What I'm wondering is how to execute a piece of code on a separate web page and bring in the results AFTER the php on that page has executed and produced its HTML.

One Possible Solution

Use Curl - I could house the additional code on a curl page and bring it in that way, but that seems to have a lot of overhead associated with it.

Is there a lower overhead way of doing this than using curl?

More info

Specifically in this case I'm trying to use a magento php script in my page, and the autoloader is trying to load in other scripts in the directory that should not be auto loaded.

Answer 1

Resolve the 'conflict' by wrapping the library code in an class where you define the interface. Then call that class directly.

Adding a server side request to another resource will extend the time each request takes (remember the second request has to fire up a database connection, load the framework, carry out a db query etc).