PHP in Templates?

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Can PHP scripts be added to templates?

I am looking to add the follwing (or similar) to the footer area of my pages. It basically scrapes an area of code from a given webpage. Whats the best way of doing it?

PHP Code:

<?php
$fp = fsockopen ("domain.co.uk", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
    if (!$fp) {
        echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n";
    } else {
        fputs ($fp, "GET /webpage.php HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: domain.co.uk\r\nUser-Agent: MS Internet Explorer\r\n\r\n");
        while (!feof($fp)) {
            $content .= fgets($fp,1024);
        }
        fclose ($fp);
    }
    
    
$start = "<!-- Comment Start -->";
$end = "<!-- Comment End -->";
    
$null = eregi("$start(.*)$end", $content, $contentarray);
$item = $contentarray[1];
echo $item
?>