Posted by Joe on 10/01/05 19:10

>>Joe said the following on 01/10/2005 15:02:
>>> Does anyone know if a show source button exists written in php? I want
>>> to
>>> add this button to a web page so by a click of a button the source code
>>> of
>>> that page is displayed.
>>> I found several but they use javascript which I want to stay away from
>>> because I don't want the button code itself to appear when viewing the
>>> source.
>>>
>>
>>Do you mean the HTML source, or the PHP source?
>>
>>For HTML, the user can just click on View->Page Source (or the
>>equivalent).
>>
>>For PHP source, if you save a file with a .phps extension, you can
>>configure your server to get PHP to highlight these files on request,
>>e.g. with Apache, add the following line to config file:
>>
>> AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
>
> Also:
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-file.php

My bad... Sorry.
I want to view the html code, not the php. I know you can do it through the
browser but I need it for a 'convenience' situation (long story). Any
ideas??

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