Generate PHP code as script output

Anon

I am sure this has been done, but a search with google and several code repositories, including phpbuilder's http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/ , has yet to yield a good script which can take my phpcode and print it to the screen. I have seen sites which show the source code, but usually this is just the phpfile not parsed.

I am wanting to write a php script which will generate another php script script using the variables supplied in the running of the script.

Functions:
addslashes(), htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() do not seem adequate.

Found:
http://ww3.net/files/php/php_generator.html
but the result was not valid php and did not run.

Many thanks!
Tim

PS - If curious, this is for a project where I can take my current php pages for interfacing with a MySQL database and use them as a template to automatically generate pages for other databases.

jc94062

I'm not entirely sure on what your asking, but would
<PRE>
//code here
</PRE>

work?

Just standard HTML tags for showing code...
Using which...

<PRE>
<u>Underline</u>
</PRE>

is shown instead of

<u>Underline</u>

jc94062

Hmm, that didn't come out as I intended, but try <PRE> anyways!

rrijnders

1) Create your templates as ".txt" files
2) In your template, create containers for variables you want to replace when the final code is generated (ie "[[repl_var1]]")
3) Have the code generator read the .txt template into a variable
4) Have the code generation script use eregi() to replace your containers with the variables passed into the code generator, say, from a form
5) You can then use addslashes(), htmlspecialchars(), htmlentities(), et al to format the resulting code for output

That should get you what you want.

-- Rich Rijnders
-- Irvine, CA US