Is there a way to display the source code of somepage.php when you go to somepagesrc.php? IOW, is there a PHP function that will in somepagesrc.php output the text contents of the file (or source code) somepage.php?
I understand I could copy the contents of somepage.php into somepage.html but that doesn't cut it for me because I want it to be dynamic so that I don't have to copy the code over every time I make a change.
Maybe use file_get_contents along with header('Content-type: text/plain') - but obligatory security warning - be sure to filter the names of files so people can't include more than you intent.
E.g.:
<?php
header('Content-type: text/plain');
print file_get_contents("somepage.php");
?>
header('Content-type: application/x-httpd-php'); or header('Content-type: application/x-httpd-php-source');. Preferably the latter but either is correct. There're others that are correct. For more info on mime types check out /etc/mime.types on a Unix machine. Make sure you call the header function before any output is sent!
print file_get_contents('file.php'); with appropriate headers?header to send the correct mime type then print/echo the file's contents.or you could use Reflection through which you could easily get functions, variables, and even comments.
Try easily to read its contents as any file using the file manipulation functions :) I don't know if that may be the solution you are searching about :$
Take a look at highlight_file(). It not only grabs the php source to display (like file_get_contents()) but nicely formats/colorizes the code for output.
