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

It's because you are printing the source, your browser will interpret that as a webpage. To see the actual code use:

echo htmlspecialchars($homepage);