Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-15 Thread Anas Mughal
If you are on the same machine, why don't you just open the file as follows: file:/filename.php Just don't go thru the webserver. --- Kevin Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I open a local PHP script and view its code to the browser? The Readfile() method appears to parse and

RE: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-15 Thread Kevin Stone
Thanks for proving the point. It's like I said. No one is willing to explain what symbolic links are. -Kevin -Original Message- From: Erik Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:41 AM To: Kevin Stone Subject: Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and

Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-15 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Kevin Stone wrote: Thanks for proving the point. It's like I said. No one is willing to explain what symbolic links are. -Kevin You just didn't search well enough: http://pucc.princeton.edu/~clients/symlink.readme -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.

Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-15 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Kevin Stone wrote: Thanks for proving the point. It's like I said. No one is willing to explain what symbolic links are. -Kevin I just realized that URL talks about backing up symbolic links, as opposed to doing an indepth explanation of what they are. Never the less, at the top it

Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-15 Thread Erik Price
On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 01:08 PM, Kevin Stone wrote: Thanks for proving the point. It's like I said. No one is willing to explain what symbolic links are. -Kevin Actually, if you inspect the message I sent you (it's quoted below), you'll see that the specific part of your

[PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin Stone
How can I open a local PHP script and view its code to the browser? The Readfile() method appears to parse and execute the code. The Fopen() method appears to parse and then not execute the code, leaving a blank screen, or at the very least displaying any non-PHP text existing in the script.

Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-14 Thread Erik Price
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:26 PM, Kevin Stone wrote: How can I open a local PHP script and view its code to the browser? The Readfile() method appears to parse and execute the code. The Fopen() method appears to parse and then not execute the code, leaving a blank screen, or

RE: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin Stone
I'm glad you posted this. It's great to know. Unfortunately it's not what I need to do. I'm uploading and updating my scripts all the time. So I need to offer code views of *active* scripts. Changing the file name to phps makes the scripts inactive. Any other ideas? -Kevin -Original

Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-14 Thread Andreas Gietl
then do a symbolic link On Thursday 14 February 2002 22:34, Kevin Stone wrote: I'm glad you posted this. It's great to know. Unfortunately it's not what I need to do. I'm uploading and updating my scripts all the time. So I need to offer code views of *active* scripts. Changing the file

RE: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin Stone
I did a net wide search on Symbolic links to learn what they are and how to use them. Wouldn't you know everyone's talking about them but no one explains what they are or how to use them. So I'm forced to ask... What are symbolic links? Why are they useful? And how do I use them? -- Kevin

RE: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-14 Thread Martin Towell
symbolic links are basically pointers to another file/directory eg. you have a file foo.html you can create a symbolic link to it and call it bar.html - if you refer to bar.html, then you're really referring to foo.html why are they useful ? well, suppose you want a two or more files/dirs

RE: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-14 Thread Jeff Sheltren
A symbolic link is like a pointer to a file. It is like a shortcut on windows OS's... Jeff At 03:44 PM 2/14/2002 -0700, Kevin Stone wrote: I did a net wide search on Symbolic links to learn what they are and how to use them. Wouldn't you know everyone's talking about them but no one explains

Re: [PHP] Anyway to open a PHP file and view its code in the browser?

2002-02-14 Thread Christopher William Wesley
Create a script to which you can pass a file namem and calls show_source() on the file name. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.show-source.php Be very careful to check the input, such that the file name parameter which eventually gets passed to show_source() cannot be one which you do not