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amphibient
amphibient

Reputation: 31212

Display PHP code in browser from the same source script

Is there a way to display the source code of somepage.php when you go to somepagesrc.php? IOW, is there a PHP function that will in somepagesrc.php output the text contents of the file (or source code) somepage.php?

I understand I could copy the contents of somepage.php into somepage.html but that doesn't cut it for me because I want it to be dynamic so that I don't have to copy the code over every time I make a change.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8348

Answers (4)

helion3
helion3

Reputation: 37331

Maybe use file_get_contents along with header('Content-type: text/plain') - but obligatory security warning - be sure to filter the names of files so people can't include more than you intent.

E.g.:

<?php

header('Content-type: text/plain');

print file_get_contents("somepage.php");

?>

Upvotes: 3

jszobody
jszobody

Reputation: 28901

Take a look at highlight_file(). It not only grabs the php source to display (like file_get_contents()) but nicely formats/colorizes the code for output.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-file.php

Upvotes: 0

Last Breath
Last Breath

Reputation: 530

Try easily to read its contents as any file using the file manipulation functions :) I don't know if that may be the solution you are searching about :$

Upvotes: 0

dotslashlu
dotslashlu

Reputation: 3401

or you could use Reflection through which you could easily get functions, variables, and even comments.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.reflection.php

Upvotes: 0

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