print html source code for html page after generated

zapa

I would like to display a html file after it has been rendered with php in Text area so user can copy or edit souce code.

I was able to open html file and print it fine. but it shows the PHP code and its not wha the final html output source looks like.

So can someone help me by showing me how i can do something like this.

thanks in advance

superwormy

These helpful links from the manual would be a good start:

www.php.net/ob_start
www.php.net/ob_get_contents
www.php.net/ob_end_clean

www.php.net/eval

www.php.net/include
www.php.net/require

Weedpacket

Don't forget [man]htmlspecialchars[/man]!

zapa

Thanks! that looks like it will do the trick.

would if be problem for someone to post an exmaple code of open html file and print to textarea?

this is what i have so far:
<?php
$data = file('C:\IBserver\www\ebay\body2.php');
foreach($data as $element) {
$element = trim($element);
echo $element;
}
?>

superwormy

Sometimes its better ot learn by doing than always asking...

Thats a good start, except that file() won't parse the PHP, so they'll be able to edit the PHP code as well, which is not what you want, correct?

So you'll need to do one of these two things:

1) include() the file and capture the output via output buffering
2) read the file into a string ( by file() or fread() ), call eval() like this: eval (" ?> " . $your_code_and_html_here . " <?php "); while output buffering that.

Then you can take the resulting HTML that was generated and stored in your output buffer ( www.php.net/ob_start ) and print that in the textarea.

Links have already been provided for you, you'll probably need htmlspecialchars() to change the > and < into their ASCII equivalents or display in the text area.