Display PHP code in browser from the same source script

Question

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 somepage

Answer 1

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 :$

Answer 2

or you could use Reflection through which you could easily get functions, variables, and even comments.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.reflection.php

Answer 3

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.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-file.php

Answer 4

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");

?>