Ok, I was able to include scractivetopics.php inside of netactive.php using the regular
PHP Code:
ob_start();
include('http://www.xxx.net/scractivetopics.php');
$scrnetactive = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
Once again, the script works BUT I would still like to get my html out of the scractivetopics.php file and into a template. If anyone could help with that and how to package it as a product, extension, whatever the heck it is.