Displaying PHP scripts as HTML

Anon

I'm looking for a simplified way to output a PHP script containing both PHP and HTML tags into an HTML file, so that people can see the scripts I write along with the commentary on a webpage. I want to keep my original header information intact, so I'm trying to find a way to do it without the Header("Content-type: text/plain"); fix. Any ideas?

gardner1

pipe the scripts into <PRE> tags?

gardner1

if this page is ./codehelp.php

and has something like

<?
require("header.inc");
bla bla php stuff ehre
?>
HTML stuff here bla bla
<?
more php stuff
?>
end html here
<?
require ("footer.inc");
?>

You will not be able to insert the header stuff (I beleive) but everything on the codehelp.php page can be piped into the middle of the page with

@ $fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/codehelp.php", "r"); // use backslashes if on win platform

// write each line in the codehelp.php file

echo "<PRE>";
while (!feof($fp))
{
$disp__each_line=fgets($fp, 100);
echo $disp_each_line."<br>";
}
echo "</PRE>";

// or passthru the file

@ $fp = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/codehelp.php", "r"); // use backslashes if on win platform

echo "<PRE>";
fpassthru($fp);
echo "</PRE>";

Give those a shot...

gardner1

damnit!!! the PRE tags are being recognized and parsed...grrr..

anyway after those echo commands are PRE tags.

gardner1

well, it didnt work as I hoped it would...Ill hand it over to someone else.

gardner1

aha!

Try this, instead of

$fp =($DOCUMENT_ROOT....

place it OUTSIDE the document root, then stuff it between the <PRE> tags

e.g.,

$fp = ("C:\this_directory_is_not_in_Web_Root\codehelp.php", "r");

try that.

in unix

$fp = ("/harmless_directory/codehelp.php", "r");

Anon

Ok, i can go through the script line by line with this code:

$fp=fopen("/unixpath/filename", "r");
rewind($fp);
echo "<PRE><code>";
fpassthru($fp);
echo "<code></PRE>";

But how do I set it up to not parse any of the html or php tags?