Meta data in includes: not ideal or a problem?

[Tribeca-Marketing-Group]

I have pages with meta data being pulled in via an include.  This was to prevent people from touching the pages themselves.  Is this an optimization issue- or is it OK to do?

[Daylan]

PHP includes are serverside so from a visitor and search engine perspective will render fine to be indexed as if it was straight up HTML.

[AdoptionHelp]

Just to elaborate on Daylans (totally correct) answer: Any server-side include will be fine, whether its .net, asp or php.