Display PHP code/HTML in browser

Anon

Hi all,

On some of my links, I want to display the code/html code of the currently viewed page, much like php.net has in the upper right corner of their web pages.

I'm using the exec("cat mypage.php", $output, $return); command and it works great execept for the fact that all html gets parsed and you can't see the code!

For example: I see red text saying, "This is the code". When I really want to display "<font face=red>This is the code</font>" on the screen.

What 'mode' do I have to be in to accurately display all the code just like I see it in my vi text editor?

Thanks,
Jim

Anon

have you tried copying the code from php.net to do this?

On a related note, if your httpd.conf is setup right, any file with .phps will display as the source.

Anon

Wow, I didn't know displaying any file with extension .phps will show the code. I can indeed display the code of any file with .phps However, the next obvious question is this, how do I go about converting all my web files on the fly to .phps? Any ideas?

Anon

Try show_source("filename");

That should do it.

Anon

Thanks! Works like a charm!

Anon

Yeah, that is one of the coolest commands ever written. It deserves an acadamy award for cool and useful commands to use in teaching php code, and I'd love to see a code section implemented here under phorum. Hmmm. Well, maybe I should take a look at phorum and see what I've have to do.