Question

Lets say I want to use a php script to read the current page’s code into a string how would I do that without executing the php contents of the page?

For example using

file_get_contents("test.php");

Will get the contents of test.php but as it does it will execute the code… How can I just get the source code of the file?

Answer 1

file_get_contents() will only execute that file and give you the output as the content if you refer to it as a URL. If you just give a filename, it will attempt to read it from (in your case) the current directory.