Question

I’m trying to generate php files that ‘include’ a template html file, as so:

$page = htmlspecialchars("Hello! <?php include("template.html"); ?>");

But, when I run it, I get:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/oliver/web/postmanapp.com/public/core.php on line 15

I’m pretty sure I need to escape the PHP code, just not sure how.

Answer 1

You have to escape any double quotes inside strings that are declared in double quotes. So this should work:

$code = "Hello! <?php include(\"template.html\"); ?>";

See PHP manual about strings.

And if you want to put that code into a file, you could use the file_put_contents function:

file_put_contents('myscript.php', $code);