show source

benracer

hi,
how can i sho a pages source code on the same page? i have a template and i would like the html to be displayed on the page so i dont have to right click -> view source?
Thanks 🙂

NogDog

highlight_file($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);

benracer

thanks but how do i show the current source as the html not the php.

NogDog

Ah, I see. That's a bit trickier.

All I can think of is to use output buffering, maybe something like:

<?php
ob_start();

// ...bunch of PHP code and HTML
?>
<div id="source_code">
[[place_holder]]
</div>
</body>
</html>
<?php
$html = ob_get_clean();
$html = str_replace('[[place_holder]]', htmlspecialchars($html), $html);
echo $html;
?>

benracer

nice one mate cheers, one other thing is there away to remove place holder from the output?

NogDog

LOL, didn't think of that (obviously).

I've got an idea, but let me play with it a bit....

NogDog

How about this:

<?php
ob_start();
?><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>
<title>Source Code Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
#source_code {
   padding: 1em;
   background-color: #def;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This Is a Test</h1>
<p>It is only a test.</p>
<?php
// This is the point where we want the source code to appear
$htmlTop = ob_get_clean();
ob_start();
?>
<p>This should appear after the source code.</p>
</body>
</html>
<?php
$htmlBottom = ob_get_clean();
echo $htmlTop;
echo "<h3>Source Code:</h3>\n<pre id='source_code'>\n";
echo htmlentities($htmlTop . $htmlBottom);
echo "</pre>\n" . $htmlBottom;
?>