php file_get_contents() shows page instead of html source code

Question

I\'ve got this piece of code, which should fetch the source code of the website.

$homepage = file_get_contents(\'http://homepage.com\');
echo $homepage;
         


        

Answer 1

That's because you're fetching the source code and (re)outputting it. Your page is just mirroring http://homepage.com.

To see the actual page source, add a Content-Type header before your echo statement:

header('Content-type: text/plain');

This tells the browser treat the source as plain text and not interpret it as HTML.