Question

I have an interesting task here.. is it possible to read the current file contents without file reading functions? (without file_get_contents, fopen etc.)

so if i have

<?

echo 'hi';
// function to output this file code

?>

the output of the php file should be same as the code (BUT without the file reading functions)

Answer 1

You can configure Apache to serve up PHP files as formatted source code with:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

This’d make any .phps files be served up as source instead of executed. If you want a particular file to be served up, but also still be executable as an actual PHP script, you can create a symlink to it, and give the symlink a .phps extension.