Inserting Un formatted PHP file

[Anon]

Right, for no reason i have descided to learn php. I have a file xxx.php which i want to put into a text field in a fill in form.

I have figured out that one way of doing this is by using the include function. This works ok, but i want to be able to look at the pure source code, because when i do this it gives it formatted already, so all the php code is hidden and has been replaced by html.

How do i print the file, unformatted by the php engine, do i have to use the fopen statements and if so how do i print the result as print $fs doesnt work. Thank you for your help.

Robert

[Anon]

well instead of using the include(); command you should read the file into a string and print it out since the include() command phrases all <?php ?>'s in it

$filename = "/path/to/the/file"; // path to the file
$file = fopen($filename, "r"); // open the file for reading
$contents = fread($file, filesize($filename)); // Get the file into $contents filesize() get the whole length of the file
fclose($file); // closes the file

[cjones]

there is also a showsource() function.

[Anon]

Right, Thanks for this.

The responses were very useful.
But once more question if you please. How would you then resave the new php into an old file, but at the same time delete the current contents of the file?

I have used a fill in form to allow editing of the text, but then how do, once i've sent it, write it to the file and at the same time delete the current contents of the file.

I have tried using fopen() with both the a+ and w+ commands and then using fwrite() to store what was in the text area in the file but it only seems to add the form info at the end of the file, which corrupts it.

the w+ option also added lots of \ slashes into the file, is this just the form processing?

any way thanks for the origional information it was very helpful, if only i can figure out how to save properly... any way thanks again

Robert