I see what you mean -

What I've done now is split my page into 2 sections:

about.php
and
sidebarlinks.php

And it sidebarlinks.php which has the following code above as you've advised, with:

Code:
$file = file_get_contents("about.php");
I'm wondering, does that still cause an infinite loop since sidebarlinks.php forms part of about.php?

What I would like is for sidebarlinks.php (or some code within about.php) to just search the html part of the page for the anchor name tags and then output the a href tags.