Parsing text from a file as PHP

[synergypoint]

I am writing a "printer friendly" page viewer that works by searching through the page code for some HTML comment tags and displays only the commented code in a new page.

Everything works except when I run this on a PHP page that pulls data from a database. The code gets displayed instead of being parsed as php.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Here is the code:

//Print Friendly Page Viewer

$begin_string=('<!-- #BeginEditable "Data" -->');
$end_string=('<!-- #EndEditable -->');

// check if the filename for the page exists
if (!file_exists("$DOCUMENT_ROOT$page"))
{
echo "<B>Error - The page $page does not exist on this site.</B>\n";
}
else
{
// get the page content and place in a string
$fcontents = (join('', file("$DOCUMENT_ROOT$page")));
if(ereg("$begin_string.*$end_string", $fcontents, $pcontents))
{
echo "$pcontents[0]\n";
}
else
{
echo "The page $page was not found on this server.";
}
}

[rheroux]

I don't know if you just forgot to post the PHP open and close tags in your code or not. But if you didn't forget, you need to do this:

<?php
//Print Friendly Page Viewer 

$begin_string=('<!-- #BeginEditable "Data" -->'); 
$end_string=('<!-- #EndEditable -->'); 

// check if the filename for the page exists 
if (!file_exists("$DOCUMENT_ROOT$page")) 
{ 
echo "<B>Error - The page $page does not exist on this site.</B>\n"; 
} 
else 
{ 
// get the page content and place in a string 
$fcontents = (join('', file("$DOCUMENT_ROOT$page"))); 
if(ereg("$begin_string.*$end_string", $fcontents, $pcontents)) 
{ 
echo "$pcontents[0]\n"; 
} 
else 
{ 
echo "The page $page was not found on this server."; 
} 
}
?>

[Angus]

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